Effect of Suction Drains in Total Knee Arthroplasty With Tranexamic Acid

Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

Treatments: Device: drainage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03145493

CE 14.150

Details and patient eligibility

About

Problem Suction drains during TKA present certain costs to the health system and requires additional nursing care. There is no clear evidence that supports their use, and no studies so far have compared blood loss in patients with or without drains when TA is administered during TKA.

Hypothesis During total knee arthroplasty, the postoperative blood loss, measured by hemoglobin level, will be lower when no drains are used.

Method

• Randomized controlled trial
• Monocentric, 3 surgeons
• Randomisation by sealed envelopes

Full description

During total knee arthroplasty, the postoperative blood loss, measured by hemoglobin level, will be lower when no drains are used.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral primary total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• TKA revision
• Bilateral TKA
• Patients that refuse transfusions
• Contraindication to tranexamic acid use: allergy, thromboembolic history
• Coagulopathy
• Kidney failure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Usage of suction drains

Experimental group

Description:

Usage of suction drains

Treatment:

Device: drainage

No usage of suction drains

No Intervention group

Description:

No usage of suction drains