Prospective Evaluation of Femoral Versus Femoral and Sciatic Nerve Block for Ambulatory Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01447277 |
Recruitment Status
: Unknown
Verified May 2013 by University of California, San Francisco.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted
: October 6, 2011
Last Update Posted
: May 17, 2013
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | Procedure: Sciatic Block Procedure: Femoral Block only | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 60 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | The Addition of a Preoperative Sciatic Nerve Block to a Femoral Nerve Block for Ambulatory Arthroscopic ACL Reconstruction |
Study Start Date : | October 2011 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | October 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | October 2013 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Femoral and Sciatic Block |
Procedure: Sciatic Block
Performing a sciatic block in addition to a femoral block preoperatively
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Femoral Block Only |
Procedure: Femoral Block only
Performing a preoperative sciatic nerve block only
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- Pain Scores [ Time Frame: Duration of stay at recovery room unil post operative day number 3. ]
- Length of stay [ Time Frame: Duration of stay in the recovery room ]
- Opiate consumption [ Time Frame: During surgery, recovery room and for 3 days after discharge ]
- PONV [ Time Frame: During the recovery room stay and after discharge from surgery center for up to 3 days. ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 and over
- ASA status I-II
- Scheduled for ambulatory Arthroscopic ACL Surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergy to Local anesthetics or opiates used in the study
- Contraindications for regional anesthesia
- coagulopathy, anticoagulation, Thrombocytopenia
- infection at site of injection
- Chronic pain and high preoperative opiate requirements
- High risk for PONV

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01447277
Contact: Pedram Aleshi, MD | 415-514-3757 | aleship@anesthesia.ucsf.edu |
United States, California | |
UCSF Orthopedic Institute | Recruiting |
San Francisco, California, United States | |
Contact: Pedram Aleshi, MD 415-514-6080 aleship@anesthesia.ucsf.edu |
Responsible Party: | University of California, San Francisco |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01447277 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
11-06776 |
First Posted: | October 6, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | May 17, 2013 |
Last Verified: | May 2013 |
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
ACL reconstruction Femoral Block Sciatic Block |