Ultrasound Guided Local Anesthetic Block: Thoracolumbar Interfascial Plane

Phase 1 Completed 10 enrolled Medical University of South Carolina

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of a new approach to numbing (anesthetizing) nerves in the back and to measure how far the area of anesthesia extends on the skin of the back.

Timeline

Start: 2014-07
Primary completion: 2014-11
Completion: 2014-11

Publications

Hand WR, Taylor JM, Harvey NR, Epperson TI, Gunselman RJ, Bolin ED, Whiteley J. Thoracolumbar interfascial plane (TLIP) block: a pilot study in volunteers. Can J Anaesth. 2015 Nov;62(11):1196-200. doi: 10.1007/s12630-015-0431-y. Epub 2015 Jul 7.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Ropivacaine	Other / unclassified	0.2 %	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.