Status:
TERMINATED
Vital Capacity in Ultrasound Guided Serratus Plane Block in ED Patients With Multiple Rib Fractures
Lead Sponsor:
Antonios Likourezos
Conditions:
Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-120 years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
I. Background: Patients with multiple rib fractures are challenging from both pulmonary and analgesia perspectives. Adequate pain management is essential in prevention of complications secondary to d...
Detailed Description
STUDY DESIGN This is a single center prospective, randomized, blinded clinical trial with a convenience sample that will be conducted in the Emergency Department of an urban level I trauma center. A...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 18 years or older
- Presumed/Clinically apparent 2 or more acute unilateral rib fractures between T3-T9
- Pain Score 5 or greater
Exclusion
- GCS\<13
- Penetrating trauma
- Pregnant
- Unable to give consent due to dementia or altered mental status
- Unable to perform spirometry
- Requiring immediate surgical intervention
- Known allergy to amide-type local anesthetics
- Signs of infection or laceration at injection site
- Systolic BP \<100 mmHg
- History of chronic pain, chronic use of analgesics
- History of substance abuse
- Painful distracting injury (injury causing significant pain that distracts the patient from having reliable scoring of rib fracture pain, i.e. femur fracture, dislocated joint)
- If patient received any other pain medication besides ketamine prior to the block
- Only posterior rib fractures present
- known allergy to acetaminophen
- Known allergy to morphine sulfate
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 4 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
3 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04530149
Start Date
November 1 2021
End Date
March 4 2024
Last Update
June 11 2024
Active Locations (1)
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Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11219