Personalizing Preprocedural Sedation for Regional Anesthesia
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-12-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
This is a prospective, randomized study in patients who receive a nerve block prior to
surgery. The aim is to investigate whether individual differences in psychosocial and pain
profiles may play a role in how patients experience sedation for regional anesthesia. The
study will utilize a mixed-methods approach, including a randomized controlled intervention
and semi-structured interviews, in order to systematically investigate the relationship
between an individual patient's level of catastrophizing and efficacy of procedural sedation,
while exploring patient satisfaction with the preoperative nerve block experience.