Forearm Tourniquet With Small Dose Intravenous Lidocaine

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Local Anaesthesia

Treatments: Procedure: forearm IVRA; Procedure: intravenous regional anaesthesia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02857686

mini IVRA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The safety and effectiveness of the "mini-dose" Bier block, a technique of i.v. regional anesthesia using low-dose lidocaine (1.5 mg/kg) without routine premedication, was evaluated in the emergency department treatment of pediatric upper extremity fractures and dislocations.

Full description

this study aimed at comparing IVRA with small dose lidocaine and forearm tourniquet with conventional IVRA with arm tourniquet and usual lidocaine dose

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA(American society of anesthesia) I, II , consent, forearm or arm surgery

Exclusion criteria

• ASA(American society of anesthesia) III or more, allergy, refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

arm intravenous regional anesthesia

Active Comparator group

Description:

tourniquet over the arm and intravenous lidocaine with a dose of 4 mg/kg

Treatment:

Procedure: intravenous regional anaesthesia

forearm intravenous regional anesthesia

Experimental group

Description:

tourniquet over the forearm and lidocaine with a dose of 1.5 mg/ kg

Treatment:

Procedure: forearm IVRA