Ultrasound Guidance for Epidural Analgesia and Anesthesia

University of British Columbia

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Epidural Space Depth

Treatments: Device: Ultrasound

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02436109

H14-01152

Details and patient eligibility

About

Most women delivering by cesarean at BC Women's receive regional anesthesia; which includes spinal, epidural, or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia. In all these techniques a needle is placed in the lower back and local anesthetic is injected to freeze the body. Normally, before the needle is placed in a patients' back, the anesthesiologist will feel between their back bones with his/her fingers to find the right spot for the needle. This study will be evaluating if the distance from the skin to the appropriate spinal space measured with a novel 3D Ultrasound will equal the actual depth of the needle insertion.

Full description

The investigators will be evaluating if the distance from the skin to the appropriate spinal space measured with a novel 3D Ultrasound will equal the actual depth of the needle insertion.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• term pregnancy
• elective cesarean

Exclusion criteria

• scoliosis
• high bmi

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

study group

Description:

elective cesarean delivery patients

Treatment:

Device: Ultrasound