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Effect of Interscalene Block on Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Shoulder Surgery Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02034370

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Official title

Influence of Inter-scalene Blockade on Postoperative Episodic Desaturation in Patients at High Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

Brief summary

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Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is when a person stops breathing repeatedly during sleep. Breathing stops because the airway collapses and prevents air from getting into the lungs.This airway closure results in a decrease in the amount of oxygen that is in the blood. Anesthetics given during surgery are known to increase the tendency for a patient's airway to close immediately after surgery in the recovery room and to reduce the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood immediately after surgery. These two factors combined could have a profound effect on a patient's well being after surgery. Recent advances in general anesthesia, pain medications, and surgical techniques have made outpatient surgery more common. Due to the increase in outpatient surgeries, pain management techniques that will work efficiently and for longer periods of time are necessary. One of these techniques is a nerve block, which coats the nerve with a numbing medication and blocks all pain from that area. Nerve blocks are routinely used along with general anesthesia for outpatient surgeries and help reduce or eliminate the need for IV or oral pain medicine after the surgery. Nerve blocks can provide good pain relief with early recovery and fewer side effects (nausea, vomiting, etc.) related to narcotic pain medicines. Unfortunately, there are no studies that look at the effect of anesthesia and nerve blocks on breathing patterns and oxygen saturation levels after discharge from outpatient surgery. We therefore propose to study the changes in lung function tests and blood oxygen levels after a nerve block and general anesthesia for outpatient shoulder surgery. We would like to conduct a home sleep study including measuring oxygen levels while subjects are sleeping, before, during and after surgery, and test lung function both before and after surgery to see if there are any differences. We will recruit 10 subjects with eligibility based on clinically indicated shoulder surgery and a nerve block. The study will be non-interventional during surgery. It is possible that future screening for out-patient shoulder surgery includes preoperative overnight oxygen saturation measurement to identify patients at high-risk of changes in oxygen levels. These patients may benefit from hospital admission after surgery for close observation. Thus, this study could have significant implications for patient safety and resource utilization.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02034370
Recruitment status
Withdrawn
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Lead sponsor
University of Michigan
Other
Enrollment
Not listed

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Feb 28, 2014
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2015
Completion
Jul 31, 2015
Last update posted
Nov 29, 2016

2014 – 2015

United States locations

U.S. sites
2
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Domino's Farm's Preoperative Clinic Ann Arbor Michigan 48109
University of Michigan Hospitals Ann Arbor Michigan 48109

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