Randomized Double Blind Controlled Trial Comparing a Blind Sciatic Nerve Block in the Popliteal Fossa to Intravenous Morphine for Traumatic Severe Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2013-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the efficacity of a simple blind technic of loco regional anaesthesia of the sciatic nerve compared to the gold standard in emergency medecine : the intravenous morphine for treated the severe pain of leg, ankle or foot trauma in the prehospital setting and mountain rescue.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois; Centre Hospitalier de la Région d'Annecy
• Treatments: Mepivacaine; Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Severe pain (VAS > or = 60mm); injuries of the leg, ankle or foot

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hypersensitivity to student agents

• Local infection

• Nerve or vascular pathology in the affected limb, coagulation pathology,

• Chronic use of opoids, use of opoids within 6 hours

• Drug addiction

• Pregnancy

• Systolic blood pressure less than 90 mmHg

• Respiratory rate less than 16 per minute

• Glasgow coma scale < 14.