Conditions: Duration of Pain Relief
Keywords: anterior cruciate ligament block duration
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 2
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Anterior cruciate ligament reapair is a painful procedure. Single shot femoral and sciatic nerve block only last 12-16 hrs. Since dexamethasone prolongs brachial plexus block, using it in lower extremity blocks will prolong the analgesia to provide better outpatient pain relief after surgery at home.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: in this group, plain bupivacaine will be used to block femoral and sciatic nerve arm 2: Bupivacaine mixed with dexamethasone will be used to block femoral and sciatic nerve

Interventions: intervention 1: dexamethsone intervention 2: Bupivacaine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: