Ultrasound with neurostimulation compared with ultrasound guidance alone for lumbar plexus block
| Autor: | Vanlapa Arnuntasupakul, Prangmalee Leurcharusmee, Worakamol Tiyaprasertkul, Roderick J. Finlayson, De Q.H. Tran, Theerawat Chalachewa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Lidocaine medicine.medical_treatment Lumbosacral Plexus Operative Time law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial 030202 anesthesiology law medicine Humans Single-Blind Method Anesthetics Local Ultrasonography Interventional Aged Lumbar plexus business.industry Ultrasound Middle Aged Arthroplasty Epidural space Surgery Implantable Neurostimulators Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Levobupivacaine Equivalence Trial Anesthesia Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Autonomic Nerve Block medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 35:224-230 |
| ISSN: | 0265-0215 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/eja.0000000000000736 |
| Popis: | Background Ultrasound-guided lumbar plexus blocks usually require confirmatory neurostimulation. A simpler alternative is to inject local anaesthetic inside the posteromedial quadrant of the psoas muscle under ultrasound guidance. Objective We hypothesised that both techniques would result in similar total anaesthesia time, defined as the sum of performance and onset time. Design A randomised, observer-blinded, equivalence trial. Setting Ramathibodi Hospital and Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital (Thailand) from 12 May 2016 to 10 January 2017. Patients A total of 110 patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty, who required lumbar plexus block for postoperative analgesia. Intervention In the combined ultrasonography-neurostimulation group, quadriceps-evoked motor response was sought at a current between 0.2 and 0.8 mA prior to local anaesthetic injection (30 ml of lidocaine 1% and levobupivacaine 0.25% with epinephrine 5 μg ml and 5 mg of dexamethasone). In the ultrasound guidance alone group, local anaesthetic was simply injected inside the posteromedial quadrant of the psoas muscle. Main outcomes measures We measured the total anaesthesia time, the success rate (at 30 min), the number of needle passes, block-related pain, cumulative opioid consumption (at 24 h) and adverse events (vascular puncture, paraesthesia, local anaesthetic spread to the epidural space). The equivalence margin was 7.4 min. Results Compared with ultrasound guidance alone, combined ultrasonography-neurostimulation resulted in decreased mean (±SD) total anaesthesia time [15.3 (±6.5) vs. 20.1 (±9.0) min; mean difference, -4.8; 95% confidence interval, -8.1 to -1.9; P = 0.005] and mean (±SD) onset time [10.2 (±5.6) vs. 15.5 (±9.0) min; P = 0.004). No inter-group differences were observed in terms of success rate, performance time, number of needle passes, block-related pain, opioid consumption or adverse events. Conclusion Although the ultrasonography-neurostimulation technique results in a shorter total anaesthesia time compared with ultrasound guidance alone, this difference falls within our accepted equivalence margin (±7.4 min). Trial registration www.clinicaltrials in the (Study ID: TCTR20160427003). |
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