drugset
drugset / Trial / NCT02162121

Stimulating Catheter for Lumbar Plexus Block: Better Postoperative Analgesia?

NCT02162121 ↗

Phase 4 Completed 64 enrolled ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO
RandomizedParallel-groupSingle-blindTreatment

Summary

Stimulating catheters have been introduced to reduce the incidence of secondary failure after continuous peripheral nerve blocks, but they effectiveness over traditional nonstimulating catheters is still controversial. The aim of this prospective, randomized, blinded study is to detect if stimulating catheters improve postoperative compared with conventional non-stimulating catheters.

Timeline

Start
2014-05
Primary completion
2016-10
Completion
2016-10

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Background Buprenorphine Other / unclassified 0.2 mg —
Background Ketorolac Other / unclassified 30 mg —
Background Levobupivacaine Other / unclassified 0.5 % Intrathecal
Background Mepivacaine Other / unclassified 1 % Other
Background Ropivacaine Other / unclassified 0.2 % Other

Indications

No indication recorded.