Visualization in Shoulder Arthroscopy With and Without Epinephrine

St. Luke's Hospital, Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Visualization in Shoulder Arthroscopy

Treatments: Other: visualization in shoulder arthroscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01973699

SLHN 2012-61

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adequate visualization during shoulder arthroscopy is of great importance for the procedure to be efficiently and effectively performed. The use of dilute epinephrine in irrigation fluid has been historically utilized to help with visualization. Given the potential safety issues documented in the literature related to epinephrine use, as well as the significant improvements in technique and instrumentation over the last decade, the need for this additive should be reexamined. The objective of the current study was to compare surgeon determined visualization in shoulder arthroscopy using irrigation fluid with and without epinephrine.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients requiring shoulder arthroscopy

Exclusion criteria

none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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83 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

With Epinephrine

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Patients undergoing shoulder arthroscopy with epinephrine in their irrigation as standardly performed

Treatment:

Other: visualization in shoulder arthroscopy

Without Epinephrine

Experimental group

Description:

Patients undergoing shoulder arthroscopy without epinephrine in their irrigation fluid as typically done

Treatment:

Other: visualization in shoulder arthroscopy