Femoral Blockade and Low-dose Spinal Anesthesia in Outpatient Knee Arthroscopy

Phase 4 Completed 50 enrolled Ankara University

RandomizedCrossoverSingle-blindTreatment

Summary

The investigators of the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of spinal anesthesia with low dose bupivacaine combined with femoral blockade on duration of anesthesia and time of first analgesic requirement during postoperative period

Timeline

Start: 2014-07
Primary completion: 2014-12
Completion: 2014-12

Publications

Turhan KS, Akmese R, Ozkan F, Okten FF. Comparison of low-dose spinal anesthesia and single-shot femoral block combination with conventional dose spinal anesthesia in outpatient arthroscopic meniscus repair. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2015 Apr;19(8):1489-97.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	0.5 %	Other
Comparator	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	5 mg	Other
Comparator	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	10 mg	Other
Comparator	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	15 ml	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.