University of Chicago
The investigators are conducting this research study to find better ways of treating pain following knee surgery. There is a standard (accepted) approach, which involves injection of numbing medication into the area around the participant surgical incision. The investigators hope to discover if providing numbing medication to a nerve that controls pain in a larger area of the knee (a nerve block), might be better at post-operative pain control.
The investigators are conducting this research study to find better ways of treating pain following knee surgery like the one the participant will be having. There is a standard (accepted) approach, which involves injection of numbing medication into the area around the participant surgical incision. The investigators hope to discover if providing numbing medication to a nerve that controls pain in a larger area of the knee (a nerve block), might be better at post-operative pain control. This type of nerve block is commonly used to treat other knee pains, like that associated with arthritis, a…
Inclusion Criteria: • Any adult patient (ages 18 and over) undergoing open reduction internal fixation of an acute isolated tibial plateau fracture Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects younger than 18 * Polytraumatized Subjects * Subjects with pathologic fractures * Subjects with tibial plateau fractures treated nonoperatively * Subjects with tibial plateau fractures treated operatively but with re-operations at the same site * Subjects with open fractures * Subjects with fracture-dislocations * Subjects with active or history of anxiety * Subjects with visual analog scale anxiety score ≥ 7 measu…
5mL 0.25% bupivacain
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