Music vs Midazolam During Preop Nerve Block Placement

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-05-11
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if there are differences in anxiety scores, heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen status when using sedation medication versus music while undergoing a peripheral nerve block before your surgery.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
• Treatments: Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are >18 years of age, who will 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; and history of renal impairment. Patients who were extremely anxious (scores 50 and greater on the State Trait Anxiety Inventory-6 (STAI-6) tool) were also excluded from the study.