A Trial on Ultrasound-assisted Spinal Anaesthesia

Changi General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Anaesthesia; Ultrasound

Treatments: Procedure: Ultrasound scan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01699373

UGSA/2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomised controlled trial comparing the use of pre-procedural ultrasound scanning with manual palpation to identify landmarks for performance of spinal anaesthesia.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA I to III
• undergoing surgery amenable to spinal anaesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal
• contraindications to regional anaesthesia
• known allergy to local anaesthetics
• bleeding diathesis
• inability to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Ultrasound-assisted

Experimental group

Description:

Pre-procedural ultrasound scan performed

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound scan

Manual Palpation

No Intervention group