Clinical trial NCT06316622: Examination of The Relationshıp Between Body Mass Index And The Skin-Epidural Space Distance
Official title: Examination of the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and the Skin-epidural Space Distance Measured by Ultrasound in the Lumbar Region
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anesthesia Awareness
Lead sponsor: Dokuz Eylul University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-03-18
Enrollment: 42
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 58
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: relationship between body mass index and the skin epidural space distance
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Aim: The aim of the study; to investigate whether there is a relationship between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue and the skin-epidural space distance measured by USG.

Detailed description: The research was carried out in the block room in the preoperating room of Dokuz Eylül University Practice and Research Hospital and with 42 volunteer operating room workers aged between 18-59 years. Height, weight and waist circumference measurements were made with standard measuring instruments, and other measurements were completed by ultrasonography (USG) separately by an anesthesiologist and a radiologist. For ultrasonographic evaluation, left lateral decubitus, right lateral decubitus and in sitting position, skin-dural junction, skin-vertebra corpus, anterior complex distances, upper and lower SIAS levels were examined with convex probe as transverse median. In addition, abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness measurements were made with a linear probe in the supine position. The statistical correlations of all measurements were examined.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age between 18 and 59 years old.
2. ASA I-II classification.
3. Body Mass Index (BMI): 18.5-29.9 kg/m2.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals under 18 or over 59 years old.
2. Those with a history of vertebral surgery.
3. Patients diagnosed with spinal deformities (excluding scoliosis ≤10 degrees, kyphosis \<30 or \>80 degrees).
4. Individuals with rheumatologic diseases affecting skeletal structure such as ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis.
5. Presence of wounds or infections in the lumbar region.
6. Volunteers who underwent epidural or spinal interventions in the lumbar region within the last month.
7. Individuals with bone implants affecting posture, such as hip or knee prostheses.
8. Pregnant women.
9. Individuals with conditions like Cushing's syndrome, hypothyroidism, acromegaly causing lumbar edema.
10. Volunteers using corticosteroids.
11. Obese individuals (BMI: \>29.9).

Primary outcomes:
measure: We examined the relationships between body mass index calculated by measuring weight and height, subcutaneous fat tissue in the abdominal region and the skin-epidural space distance in the lumbar region; measured by ultrasound.
timeFrame: six months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İzmir
country: Turkey
facility: Dokuz Eylul Unicersity
state: Narlidere
city: İzmir
country: Turkey
facility: Dokuz Eylul University
Study officials:
affiliation: Dokuz Eylul University
name: Semih Küçükgüçlü, doctor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References: