Hospitalized patients for superior member surgery have different types of anesthesia.Forearm and/or arm surgery could be done under general anesthesia, but in the most of the cases, this surgery was done under locoregional anesthesia.Several injections of local anesthesia at the nerves axilla are used with the used of ultrasonography. The purpose of this study is to show that the anesthesia efficiency is the same with 40 or 25 ml of Xylocaine 1.5% Adrenalin in Forearm or Arm Surgery.
Inclusion criteria : * age \> 18 years old * patient who must have a non emergency surgery of the forearm or the hand * ASA I or ASA II * informed consent * Ensured patient Exclusion criteria : * pregnancy * respiratory insufficiency * cardiac insufficiency * hepatic insufficiency * renal insufficiency * ASA III or IV * contraindications to the locoregional anesthesia * contraindications to the xylocaine used * patient participate to an another clinical study * guardianship patient
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
72
40 ml or 25 ml of Xylocaine injection
Department of Anesthesia CHRU Brest
Brest, Brittany Region, France
Axillary block efficiency conducted by ultrasound
during the hospitalisation
Time frame: 48 hours
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