Overview

Perineural Steroids for Peripheral Nerve Blocks

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2017-08-31
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
This study will look at the efficacy of dexamethasone for prolongation of peripheral nerve blocks.
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Treatments:
BB 1101
Bupivacaine
Dexamethasone
Dexamethasone 21-phosphate
Dexamethasone acetate
Epinephrine
Epinephryl borate
Racepinephrine
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- elective robotic medial MAKO partial knee arthroplasty

- agreed to a regional anesthesia technique

Exclusion Criteria:

- contraindications to regional anesthesia

- presence of a progressive neurological deficit

- a pre-existing coagulopathy, infection

- insulin and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

- systemic use of corticosteroids within 30 days of surgery

- chronic use of an opioid analgesic (>3 months or a combined total of more than 40 mg
Oxycodone equivalents a day)

- pregnancy

- a prior history of an adverse event (for example: psychosis) or an allergy to
dexamethasone