Efficacy of a Modified Obturator Nerve Block Technique

Medical University of Graz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Surgery; Knee Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: obturator nerve block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01875289

VOB-Studie EK 25-387 ex 12/13

Details and patient eligibility

About

Efficacy of a modified obturator nerve block technique by using only a single morphological landmark, a double-blinded randomised pilot study.

Enrollment: 36 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists 1-3, older than 18 y, cooperative patient

Exclusion criteria

• infection, neuromuscular deficits of the lower extremities,pregnancy, neurologic disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Ropivacain

Experimental group

Description:

Local anaesthesia

Treatment:

Procedure: obturator nerve block

NaCl 0.9%

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Saline

Treatment:

Procedure: obturator nerve block