Effect of Neurostimulator Usage on Block Success

Gaziosmanpasa Research and Education Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: PATIENTS WITH UPPER EXTREMITY SURGERY

Treatments: Procedure: general anesthesia; Drug: fentanyl will be added

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05706090

Neurostimulator Usage

Details and patient eligibility

About

The need of a neurostimulator for a successful nerve block was questioned in different block types after ultrasound has become standard. The aim of this clinical study was to determine the effect of neurostimulator use on block success in costoclavicular block

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Class I, II and III of American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification
• being between 18 and 80 years of age,
• body mass index (BMI) between 18 and 35 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who did not give consent,
• were above ASA III,
• pregnant,
• had a neuromuscular disease,
• bleeding diathesis,
• a local anesthetic allergy,
• an infection in the area where nerve block would be applied, and
• had previously operated from the infraclavicular fossa were not included in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Group USP

Experimental group

Description:

The group using ultrasound and injection pressure manometer was named USP

Treatment:

Procedure: general anesthesia

Drug: fentanyl will be added

Group USPN

Experimental group

Description:

The group using ultrasound , injection pressure manometer , and neurostimulator was named USPN

Treatment:

Procedure: general anesthesia

Drug: fentanyl will be added