Protracted Mixture of Local Anesthetics for Major Foot and Ankle Surgery

Phase 4 Completed 56 enrolled Rasmus Wulff Hauritz Aarhus University Hospital · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupTriple-blindTreatment

Summary

To extend the duration of peripheral nerve blockade after major foot and ankle surgery the investigators randomize the postoperative treatment with either perineurial sciatic nerve blocks with 0.5% Bupivacaine-Epinephrine with or without Dexamethasone.

Timeline

Start: 2015-08
Primary completion: 2016-07
Completion: 2016-07

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Dexamethasone	Small molecule	8 mg	Other
Background	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	0.5 %	Other
Background	Epinephrine	Other / unclassified	5 ug/ml	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.