Risk Factors and Prevention of Severe Pain Upon Cessation of a Peripheral Nerve Block

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Risk factors and Prevention of severe Pain upon cessation of a peripheral nerve block. A prospective randomized study in ambulatory patients undergoing upper limb bone surgery under single shot axillary plexus block.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain
• Treatments: Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• any ambulatory upper limb bone surgery carried out under axillary PNB

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate

• Contraindication to the use of ketamine

• Contraindication to regular use of postoperative analgesics like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and paracetamol

• Pregnant woman

• Diabetic patient

• Vascular patient

• Cognitive disorders

• Inability to answer perioperative questionnaires (language problem)