Treating Intractable Post-Amputation Phantom Limb Pain With Ambulatory Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks

Abstract

The goals and tasks of Funding Year 2 encompassed continued recruiting, enrollment and data collection: Protocol successfully amended to broaden inclusion/exclusion criteria to include surgical amputations, AKAs, and phantom pain in multiple locations Approval received by National Amputee Coalition research committee to advertise in their website, e-newsletter, andnational magazine; recruiting material developed, approved, and placed in publications Amputee support group outreach, prosthetics groups outreach, and clinic outreach conducted Data collection ongoing for all enrolled subjects Data Safety Monitoring Board monitoring ongoing 18 subjects enrolled for all centers (15 at Cleveland Clinic, 3 at UCSD, 0 at Palo Alto VA, 0 at Walter Reed) 10 subjects participated in the crossover treatment (8 at Cleveland, 2 at UCSD, 0 at Palo Alto VA, 0 at Walter Reed) 3 additional subjects currently scheduled at UCSD for the Quarter 1, Funding Year 3

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1003037

Entities

People

  • Anya Morgan
  • Brian M Ilfeld

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amputation
  • Amputees
  • Anesthesia
  • Clinical Trials
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Inclusions
  • Materials
  • Monitoring
  • Periodicals
  • Peripheral Nervous System
  • Prostheses And Implants
  • Prosthetics
  • Recruiting
  • Residual Limbs
  • Surgical Amputations

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

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