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Combined Nerve Blockade and Local Infiltration Anesthesia in Appendectomy - A Blinded Randomized Study

NCT00508092 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2008-04-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether the use of local anesthetic to numb the nerves that run deeper in the abdominal wall gives better post operative pain control than just infiltrating local anesthetic to the wound edges.

Conditions

  • Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

PROCEDURE

local anesthetic administration

Pre incision skin infiltration with local anesthetic 0.5% bupivacaine by weight OR Pre incision skin infiltration and deeper field infiltration (deep to external oblique) with local anesthetic 0.5% bupivavcaine by weight

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Jonathan K Randall, MRCS · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • Simon B Middleton, FRCS · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • Arnold Goede, MRCS · Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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