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- Clinical Trial NCT05484648
Dexamethasone or Dexmedetomidine as Adjunct in Fascia Iliaca Block During Positioning for Sub-arachnoid Block & Post-operative Analgesia After Femur Neck Fracture Surgery: A Randomized Control Trial
Femur fracture is a common injury occurring in the young due to trauma as well as amongst the elderly due to fall. Reduction and fixation of femur fractures pose a challenge to the anesthesiologist. These fractures are intensely painful as the pain arises from the periosteum and even slight movement can cause muscle forces to angulate and deform the fractured fragments which apart from causing extreme pain also make the reduction of the fracture quite difficult. Sub-arachnoid block (SAB) is a commonly used technique for lower-limb surgeries. It provides excellent surgical anesthesia and is a largely safe and reliable anesthetic technique. However, for femur fracture repair, positioning the patient for SAB not only causes extreme pain but it also makes administration of SAB difficult due to inappropriate position. Another limitation of SAB is its limited duration of action. Hence, conventional pain management modalities which include opioids and NSAIDs are used to manage pain before and during the administration of SAB and during the post-operative period. These conventional pain management drugs are associated with significant adverse effects and should be used with caution especially in the elderly with multiple comorbids.
Recently, fascia iliaca block (FICB) has been used not only as part of multi-modal peri-operative analgesic regime for femur fractures but also to provide adequate analgesia for appropriate SAB positioning. FICB fills the plane underneath the fascia iliaca with local anesthetic and acts on the femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous and obturator nerves and thus provides adequate analgesia for femur fractures for up to 24-48 hours. FICB is also associated with less side effects when compared to conventional pain management modalities and provides adequate unilateral analgesia with fewer autonomic and neurological complications when compared with epidural analgesia.
Traditionally, local anesthetics have been used for most of the peripheral nerve blocks (PNB), however multiple adjuncts such as opioids, ketamine and clonidine have been used to prolong the duration of action as well as decrease the local anesthetic dosage. Among the adjuncts, dexamethasone has been used to generally favorable results in PNBs. Dexmedetomidine is another promising drug being used as a local anaesthetic adjuvant in peripheral nerve blocks. It is an alpha-2 agonist, which has shown to have prolonged duration of postoperative analgesia when given with LA for peripheral nerve blocks with other beneficial effects such as reducing the opioid consumption.
In this study, the investigators compare dexamethasone with dexmedetomidine as an adjunct when combined with ropivacaine in FICB.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Phase 4
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Haris Sheikh, MBBS
- Phone Number: 03452432387
- Email: hsheikh957@gmail.com
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Samie Asghar, MBBS, FCPS
- Email: samie.asghar@aku.edu
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age group (18-80)
- Undergoing elective/emergency femur fracture repair under sub-arachnoid block
- ASA status I-III
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participation in any other trial
- Known hypersensitivity to study medications
- Seizure disorder
- Coagulation disorder
- Infection over injection site
- Hemodynamic Instability
- Concurrent medications use that is contraindicated with study medications
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Quadruple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Group A
Patients allocated to group A will receive ultrasound guided FICB with 0.375% ropivacaine 38 cc along with 8 mg dexamethasone in 2cc making a total injection volume of 40 cc.
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Dexamethasone has been used to generally favorable results in peripheral nerve blocks as adjunct. Several studies have reported prolongation in the duration of ropivacaine, mepivacaine and bupivacaine when used in combination with dexamethasone. Various mechanisms for the beneficial adjunctive effect of dexamethasone with Local Anesthetics (LA) have been proposed. One theory suggests that the improved analgesia and increased blockade duration is due to its anti-inflammatory properties. It also acts as a local vasoconstrictor and thus may act by reducing LA absorption. Furthermore, it also increases the activity of inhibitory potassium channels on nociceptive C-Fibers. |
Experimental: Group B
Patients allocated to group B will receive ultrasound guided FICB with 0.375% ropivacaine 38 cc along with 1 µg/kg dexmedetomidine in 2cc dilution making a total injection volume of 40 cc.
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Dexmedetomidine is another promising drug being used as a local anaesthetic adjuvant in peripheral nerve blocks.
It is an alpha-2 agonist, which has shown to have prolonged duration of postoperative analgesia when given with LA for peripheral nerve blocks with other beneficial effects such as reducing the opioid consumption.
Alpha-2-agonists such as dexmedetomidine cause hyperpolarization-activated cation currents which inhibit the transmission of nociceptive fibers.
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No Intervention: Group C
Patients allocated to group C will receive ultrasound guided FICB with 0.375% ropivacaine 38 cc along with 2 cc normal saline making a total injection volume of 40 cc.
This will serve as the control arm.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pain score after fascia iliaca block placement
Time Frame: Static Pain at 5 minutes after placement of block.
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Static pain will be recorded at 5 minute interval with the help of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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Static Pain at 5 minutes after placement of block.
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Pain score after fascia iliaca block placement
Time Frame: Static Pain (at 10 minutes after placement of block.
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Static pain will be recorded at 10-minute interval with the help of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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Static Pain (at 10 minutes after placement of block.
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Pain score during positioning of patient for sub-arachnoid block
Time Frame: Dynamic Pain during positioning for sub-arachnoid block
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After 15 minutes of fascia iliaca block placement, patients will be positioned for sub-arachnoid block.
At this point, dynamic pain will be recorded with the help of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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Dynamic Pain during positioning for sub-arachnoid block
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Duration of postoperative analgesia
Time Frame: Till 24 hours post surgery
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This will be measured by the demand to first rescue analgesic
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Till 24 hours post surgery
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Post-operative Pain
Time Frame: Arrival in PACU (0 hours)
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Post-operative pain will be assessed via the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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Arrival in PACU (0 hours)
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Post-operative Pain
Time Frame: 6 hours after surgery
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Post-operative pain will be assessed Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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6 hours after surgery
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Post-operative Pain
Time Frame: 12 hours after surgery
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Post-operative pain will be assessed via the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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12 hours after surgery
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Post-operative Pain
Time Frame: 24 hours after surgery
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Post-operative pain will be assessed via the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being worst imaginable pain).
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24 hours after surgery
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Patient Satisfaction
Time Frame: 24 hours after surgery
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Patient satisfaction would be assessed via the Likert Scale
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24 hours after surgery
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Samie Asghar, MBBS, FCPS, Aga Khan University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Pathologic Processes
- Postoperative Complications
- Pain
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Fractures, Bone
- Wounds and Injuries
- Leg Injuries
- Femoral Fractures
- Hip Injuries
- Hip Fractures
- Pain, Postoperative
- Femoral Neck Fractures
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Adrenergic Agents
- Neurotransmitter Agents
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Central Nervous System Depressants
- Autonomic Agents
- Peripheral Nervous System Agents
- Analgesics
- Sensory System Agents
- Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
- Anti-Inflammatory Agents
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Antiemetics
- Gastrointestinal Agents
- Glucocorticoids
- Hormones
- Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
- Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
- Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists
- Adrenergic alpha-Agonists
- Adrenergic Agonists
- Hypnotics and Sedatives
- Dexamethasone
- Dexmedetomidine
Other Study ID Numbers
- 7886
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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