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Taylor's Approach vs Lumbar Approach for Spinal Anesthesia

NCT02302378 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2015-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Spinal anesthesia is a common technique for providing anesthesia for knee joint replacement surgery. The investigators wish to demonstrate that using a lower approach to spinal anesthetic (Taylor's approach of L5-S1) causes less low blood pressure while still providing adequate anesthesia for knee joint replacement surgery than a higher approach (L3-L4).

Conditions

  • Spinal Anesthesia

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Lumbar paramedian approach at L3-L4 interspace

Spinal anesthesia will be performed via a lumbar paramedian approach at L3-L4 interspace using 12.5mg 0.5% Bupivacaine (preservative free)

PROCEDURE

Taylor's approach (paramedian approach at L5-S1 interspace)

Spinal anesthesia will be performed via Taylor's approach (paramedian approach at L5-61 interspace) using 12.5mg 0.5% Bupivacaine (preservative free)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Himat Vaghadia, MBBS · Clinical Anesthesiologist, University of British Columbia Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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