Effect of Local Infiltration Anesthesia in a Hip Arthroplasty Fast Track Program.

Hospital Mutua de Terrassa

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Hip Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Drug: Saline Solution; Drug: 100cc of 2% ropivacaine; Drug: Adrenaline 10mcg/ml

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03513276

00002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fast-track programs in Orthopaedic Surgery require early motion that can only be achieved by optimal pain management protocols. Multimodal analgesia protocols including local infiltration anesthesia (LIA) have obtained excellent results in fast-track programs involving Total Knee Arthroplasty but further research and data is needed in Total Hip Arthoplasty programs.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hip osteoarthritis requiring Total Hip Replacement

Exclusion criteria

• Mental Disorders
• contraindications for epidural anesthesia
• Neurologic disorders that could interfere with pain evaluation
• allergy to drugs in multimodal analgesic protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Multimodal analgesia + Local Infiltration Anesthesia

Experimental group

Description:

100cc of 2% ropivacaine + Adrenaline 10mcg/ml + 20cc saline solution

Treatment:

Drug: 100cc of 2% ropivacaine

Drug: Adrenaline 10mcg/ml

Multimodal analgesia + saline solution

Active Comparator group

Description:

120cc of saline solution

Treatment:

Drug: Saline Solution