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NCT05091905

Patient-Titrated Automated Intermittent Boluses of Local Anesthetic vs. a Continuous Infusion Via a Perineural Catheter for Postoperative Analgesia

Enrolling by Invitation
PHASE4Ages 18+InterventionalTreatment
University of California, San Diego
~140 participants
Updated 2026-03-23 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Continuous Infusion of ropivacaine 0.2%Titratable Automated Intermittent Boluses of ropivacaine 0.2%

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Average Pain queried on First postoperative day
Measured over Postoperative day 1
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Pain, Acute Postoperative
Trauma Injury

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
California1

Study leadership

  • Brian M Ilfeld, MD, MS · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of California, San Diego

Who to contact

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Eligibility criteria

Exclusion

daily opioid use within the previous 4 weeks
clinical neuro-muscular deficit of either the brachial plexus (infraclavicular) or sciatic nerve (sciatic catheters) and its branches and/or innervating muscles
morbid obesity \[body mass index \> 35 kg/m2\]
surgery outside of the ipsilateral sciatic and saphenous nerve distributions for sciatic catheters \[e.g., iliac crest bone graft\]
pregnancy
incarceration

What this trial measures

  • Average Pain queried on First postoperative dayPostoperative day 1

    Rated 0-10 on numeric rating scale the average pain from the recovery room until the data collection call (0=no pain, 10=worst imaginable pain)

  • Duration of local anesthetic administrationThe first 8 days postoperatively

    The duration of treatment from when the infusion pump was initially turned on until the local anesthetic reservoir was exhausted \[recorded by the infusion pump memory\]