Trial Comparing the Onset and Duration of Ultrasound Guided Supraclavicular Nerve Blocks Using Ropivacaine Versus Ropivacaine-Chloroprocaine Mixture

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A double blinded randomized controlled trial comparing the onset and duration of the Onset and Duration of Ultrasound Guided Supraclavicular Nerve Blocks Using a long acting local anesthestic (Ropivacaine) with a mixture of a long and short acting local anesthestic (Ropivacaine-Chloroprocaine Mixture).

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of New Mexico
• Collaborator: VA Palo Alto Health Care System
• Treatments: Chloroprocaine; Procaine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who will be having a supraclavicular brachial plexus block as part of their anesthetic will be approached for possible inclusion in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients who are pregnant,

• have an ASA status of IV or greater,

• neuropathy,

• a cast or other impediment to performing a motor or sensory exam in the arm and hand,

• patients under the age of 18,

• long term opioid therapy (longer than 1 month),

• history of opioid abuse and pseudocholinesterase deficiency