Blood Loss Between Surgical Blade and Unipolar Electrocautery in TKA

Thammasat University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Loss

Treatments: Procedure: surgical blade; Procedure: electrocautery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02108327

orthoTU07

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using of surgical blade may have less blood loss than unipolar electrocautery in Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA).

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• osteoarthritis of the knee who undergoing unilateral primary total knee arthroplasty
• age 50-85 years old
• ASA class 1-3

Exclusion criteria

• unable to perform spinal anaesthesia
• history of coagulation disorder
• renal impairment (CrCl <30 mL/min) or cirrhosis
• platelet count < 100,000 or abnormal coagulogram
• on pacemaker
• stop anti-platelet or anti-coagulogram less than 7 days

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

surgical blade

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: surgical blade

Unipolar electrocautery

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: electrocautery