Chloroprocaine Spinal for Outpatient Knee Surgery

Summary

Outpatient knee surgeries with duration of less than one hour pose a challenge to the use of spinal anesthesia given that traditional agents remain in effect for 2-3 hours, thus creating a mismatch between length of surgery and anesthetic resolution. The investigators hypothesize that the use of chloroprocaine can combine the benefits of a short spinal anesthetic while avoiding the side effects of a general anesthetic, thus promoting earlier discharge.

Timeline

Start

2018-06-24

Primary completion

2021-02-04

Completion

2021-02-04

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.