Conditions: Foot and Ankle Procedures
Keywords: Pain management Postoperative opioid requirements Perioperative outcomes Dexamethasone Anesthetic adjuvant Analgesic adjuvant
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 60
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this research study to evaluate the effects of dexamethasone as an addition to peripheral nerve block (Put the nerve to sleep with Bupivacaine a numbing medication) on length of pain relief (analgesia), postoperative narcotic (opioids) requirements, pain scores, and patient satisfaction after foot and ankle procedures.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Dexamethasone 4mg(1 ml) per 20cc arm 2: Saline 1 ml per 20cc

Interventions: intervention 1: Dexamethasone intervention 2: Saline
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 0.5% Bupivacaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine + Dexamethasone 4mg per 20cc intervention 2: 0.5% Bupivacaine with 1:200,000epinephrine + Saline 1 ml per 20cc

Protocol document: