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Axillary Block in Association With Analgesic Truncal Blocks at the Elbow for Wrist Surgery.

Sponsor: CMC Ambroise Paré

Summary

Fractures of the forearm bones that occur around the wrist are common in the elderly. Standard anesthesia for its surgical treatment is regional anesthesia (RA): supraclavicular block, infraclavicular block or axillary block (BAX). However, these techniques have some limitations, such as the postoperative pain management and the non-specificity of the analgesia. Indeed analgesia is not specific to the wrist and extends to the elbow and forearm, preventing rapid recovery of elbow flexion and extension when a long-acting local anesthetic (LA) is used. Recently RA techniques associating proximal anesthetic blocks with distal analgesic blocks have been proposed to serve a dual objective: good anesthesia for surgery and specific analgesia. The hypothesis of this study is that, for the wrist surgery, axillary block using a short-acting LA combined with analgesic blocks at the elbow using a long-acting LA could provide a RA installation time reduction, an optimal surgical comfort, a longer post-operative analgesia duration and a faster recovery from motor block.

Official title: Axillary Block in Association With Analgesic Truncal Blocks of the Median and Radial Nerves at the Elbow for Wrist Surgery.

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