Fascia Iliaca block and burn donor site pain.(ver. 1)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The effect of Fascia Iliaca Compartment block vs. conventional local anaesthetic infiltration on leg donor site pain in burns patients.
IRAS ID
160466
Contact name
Peter Berry
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
Patients with burns often require skin grafts to the site of the burn. A common place to take the skin graft from is the side of the thigh. It is often seen that the pain from the site where the skin graft is taken is more intense than that of the burn wound itself.
Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block (FICB) is a safe and simple method of giving local anaesthetic agents into the groin to provide pain relief for surgery to the thigh and hip. The local anaesthetic agents cause numbness by blocking the nerves supplying the hip and the thigh. It has been used to provide pain relief for patients with fractures of the neck of femur in emergency rooms for a long period of time and has a demonstrated safety profile.
Currently the method for providing pain relief after surgery to the skin graft site is by infiltration of local anaesthetic into the tissues via multiple injections.
We want to find out if there is a difference in the pain relief obtained by the patients depending on whether they have a FICB or the direct local anaesthetic infiltration. This would be measured by the amount of oral pain relief medications they need post operatively and also their level of pain as determined by a simple pain score.REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/EE/0066
Date of REC Opinion
17 Mar 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion