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Ultrasound Guidance for Epidural Analgesia and Anesthesia

NCT02436109 · Status: TERMINATED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2016-11-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Epidural Space Depth

Interventions

DEVICE

Ultrasound

Parturients backs will be scanned using 3D ultrasound to measure the depth to the epidural space

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vit Gunka, MD FRCPC · University of British Columbia

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2016-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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