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Plantar Compartment Block Versus Sciatic Block in Hallux Valgus Ambulatory Surgery (Plantar-block)

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University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anesthesia

Treatments

Procedure: PLANTAR BLOCK
Procedure: Sciatic popliteal block

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03922412
RECHMPL18_0489

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hallux valgus surgery is known as a painful surgery. Qualitative pain management is the key to successful early recovery and rehabilitation.

Sciatic popliteal nerve block is widely used despite the risk of falling due to prolonged motor blockade.

Plantar block combined with distal peroneal block may be a better analgesic option in order to provide fast track rehabilitation.

This study aims to determine the quality of deambulation following hallux valgus surgery.

Block quality, post operative pain, patient satisfaction and length of hospital stay will be compared in this study.

Patients scheduled for ambulatory (hallux valgus) surgery under regional anaesthesia alone (without general anesthesia) will be recruited.

Consenting patients will be randomized the day of surgery to one of those two groups :

  1. Short lasting sciatic nerve block (mepivacaine 1% 200mg) and long lasting plantar block (ropivacaine 0,5% 25mg + 2mg dexamethasone) with distal deep peroneal block (ropivacaine 0,5% 2ml).
  2. Long lasting sciatic nerve block (ropivacaine 0,5% 100mg + 2mg dexamethasone)

All patients will benefit from post operative analgesia including paracetamol, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs intravenously.

During PACU stay, pain will be assessed using the VAS (visual analogue scale) score, and analgesic IV consumption.

Temporospatial gait analysis will be assessed with a GAITRITE system before the patient leave the hospital.

Deambulation and walking ability will be evaluated at home postoperatively to day 3 using an acetimetry bracelet.

Pain, postoperative analgesic requirement, sleep quality and overall patient satisfaction (EVAN-LR) will also be assessed during the first 3 postoperative days.

Full description

Hallux valgus surgery is known as a painful surgery. Qualitative pain management is the key to successful early recovery and rehabilitation.

Sciatic popliteal nerve block is widely used despite the risk of falling due to prolonged motor blockade.

Plantar block combined with distal peroneal block may be a better analgesic option in order to provide fast track rehabilitation.

This study aims to determine the quality of deambulation following hallux valgus surgery.

Block quality, post operative pain, patient satisfaction and length of hospital stay will be compared in this study.

Patients scheduled for ambulatory (hallux valgus) surgery under regional anaesthesia alone (without general anesthesia) will be recruited.

Consenting patients will be randomized the day of surgery to one of those two groups :

  1. Short lasting sciatic nerve block (mepivacaine 1% 200mg) and long lasting plantar block (ropivacaine 0,5% 25mg + 2mg dexamethasone) with distal deep peroneal block (ropivacaine 0,5% 2ml).
  2. Long lasting sciatic nerve block (ropivacaine 0,5% 100mg + 2mg dexamethasone)

All patients will benefit from post operative analgesia including paracetamol, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs intravenously.

During PACU stay, pain will be assessed using the VAS (visual analogue scale) score, and analgesic IV consumption.

Temporospatial gait analysis will be assessed with a GAITRITE system before the patient leave the hospital (6 hours after ALR).

Deambulation and walking ability will be evaluated at home postoperatively to day 3 using an acetimetry bracelet.

Pain, postoperative analgesic requirement, sleep quality and overall patient satisfaction (EVAN-LR) will also be assessed during the first 3 postoperative days.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age between 18 and 75 years old
  • patient covered by social health insurance
  • have signed written informed consent
  • scheduled for hallux valgus ambulatory surgery

Exclusion criteria

  • protected patients or patients incapable of giving written informed consent
  • pregnant or breastfeeding woman
  • vulnerable adult
  • inability to participate in pain scoring scales
  • severe coagulopathy
  • allergy or contraindications to study drugs
  • preoperative gait disorders
  • chronic kidney disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) ≤ 50 ml/min (estimated by the Cockcroft and Gault formula)
  • severe chronic liver disease
  • chronic pain (treated by non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs, opioids, neuroleptic drugs, antidepressant or anticonvulsants)
  • peripheral neuropathy
  • intervention under general anesthesia

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Triple Blind

60 participants in 2 patient groups

plantar block
Active Comparator group
Description:
Short lasting sciatic nerve block (mepivacaine 1% 200mg) and long lasting plantar block (ropivacaine 0,5% 25mg + 2mg dexamethasone) with distal deep peroneal block (ropivacaine 0,5% 2ml).
Treatment:
Procedure: PLANTAR BLOCK
Sciatic popliteal block
Active Comparator group
Description:
Long lasting sciatic nerve block (ropivacaine 0,5% 100mg + 2mg dexamethasone)
Treatment:
Procedure: Sciatic popliteal block

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Sophie BRINGUIER; Fabien SWISSER, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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