Effect of Saphenous Nerve and Nerve to Vastus Medialis Block Within Subsartorial Femoral Triangle on Quadriceps Strength

Thammasat University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Saphenous Nerve Block; Regional Anesthesia Morbidity

Treatments: Procedure: SSFTB

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03845972

ทป.2/44/2561

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research objective is to compare quadriceps strength by measuring maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) and risk of fall before and after subsartorial femoral triangle block (SSFTB)

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible patients are all ASA class I-III, age 18-80 years, and have plan to perform SSFTB at Thammasat University Hospital consecutively

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion criteria are patients who refuse to participate the study, morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 35 kg.m2), lower extremity neurological dysfunction, performing other peripheral nerve blocks, patients who cannot cooperate or measure MVIC, difference of quadriceps strength between two side of knees more than 10 percent, and SSFTB is not finally performed or failed block.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

40 participants in 2 patient groups

before SSFTB

No Intervention group

after SSFTB

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: SSFTB