Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:16 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 3:16 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01571492
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Age between 18-75 years
* No contraindications to placement of a lumbar plexus posterior block or paravertebral block.
* ASA status I-III
* Scheduled for open total hip arthroplasty with the same surgeon.
* Patients without painful conditions or chronic use of opioid or antineuropathic medications.
* Patient who are not expected to receive therapeutic anticoagulation in the postoperative period.
* No Known allergies to the medications used in the study.
* Patients willing to receive spinal anesthesia
Exclusion Criteria:
* Age under 18 years or older than 75 years.
* Any contraindication to a placement of continuous lumbar plexus Block.
* American Society of Anesthesiologist physical status IV or greater.
* Chronic painful conditions.
* Preoperative opioid tolerant use.
* Coagulation Abnormalities or patients who are expected to be on therapeutic anticoagulants postoperatively.
* Allergy to any of the drugs/agents used study protocol.
* Personal or family history of malignant hyperthermia.
* Serum creatinine greater than 1.4 mg/dl.
* Pregnancy
* Having an altered mental status (not oriented to place, person, or time)
* Any comorbid condition that, in the judgment of the consulting orthopedic surgeon, or intraoperative anesthesiologist, would proscribe the patient from any aspect of the study.
* Patient refusal.
* Lumbar plexus block performed with loss of resistance technique
* Patient requiring postoperative management in the ICU
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
75 Years
Study:
NCT01571492
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01571492