Music vs Midazolam During Preop Nerve Block Placement - Part 2 Study On Anxiolytic Options Before Peripheral Nerve Blocks

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is evaluating music vs midazolam as a means of anxiolysis for preoperative single-shot nerve block placement.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
• Treatments: Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are >18 years of age

• Patients able to give informed consent in receiving a peripheral nerve block in the preoperative bay for their primary anesthetic and/or for their postoperative pain control

Exclusion Criteria:

• significant psychiatric disorder such as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression, psychosis, bipolar disorder

• individuals who were incompetent to give informed consent

• pregnant and/or breast-feeding patients

• any underlying coagulopathy

• infection or other factors which would be a contraindication to receiving a peripheral nerve block

• hypersensitivity to midazolam

• history of renal impairment.

• Patients who were extremely anxious (scores greater than 50 on the State Trait Anxiety Inventory-6 (STAI-6) tool) were also excluded from the study.