Safety and Efficacy of Three Local Block Techniques for Diabetic Foot Surgery

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2017-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Diabetic patients suffering diabetic foot disease have sever comorbidities, as hypertension, ischemic heart disease, autonomic neuropathy, infections and gastric reflux all of which contribute to a high risk profile for anesthesia.

failure rate associated with ankle or popliteal nerve block may be higher than accepted, the study hypothesized that combined ankle and popliteal block may increase the success rate with no added complications.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) II and III

• Co-operative

• Diabetic patients

• Scheduled for various types of elective diabetic unilateral foot operations

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients suffering psychiatric neurological or neuromuscular disorders.

• Allergy to local anesthetics used.

• Infection at the block site.

• Sever renal and hepatic impairment.

• Patients receiving chronic analgesic therapy.