Conditions: Regional Block for Pain Control Supraclavicular Block Ultrasound Guided Block Block Additive
Keywords: nerve block outpatient surgery
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 26
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The patients included will be those who have already agreed to have a brachial plexus nerve block for surgery. A flip of the coin will decide who gets and additive called buprenorphine in their block or not. They will both contain the same amount and type of numbing medicine. The goal will be to see if the additive extends the life of the pain control portion of the ultrasound guided supraclavicular nerve block.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: will get only local anesthetic and epinephrine in block. no additive in block arm 2: will receive local anesthetic, epinephrine and the additive buprenorphine to nerve block

Interventions: intervention 1: Buprenorphine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: added to nerve block, 0.3mg one time peripheral block use

Protocol document: