Post-Op Rotator Cuff Pain Study With Subacromial Bupivacaine Infusion

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Subacromial pain catheters have been used with uncertain efficacy for many years after rotator cuff repair to aid in postoperative pain control. Our null hypothesis is that postoperative subacromial continuous infusion bupivacaine catheters will provide no pain control benefits over placebo infusions or no catheter use.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Orlando Health, Inc.
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full thickness rotator cuff tear

• Pre operative MRI

• Patients who are medically stable to undergo the surgery

• Patients who consent to involvement in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior surgery on the involved shoulder

• Preoperative MRI suggesting that the rotator cuff tear is unrepairable

• Patients with known allergies to oxycodone, bupivacaine or a similar drug

• Workman's compensation patients

• Patients who do not fill out their visual analog scores or their medication diaries.