Evaluation of Optimal Dose of Local Anesthetics for Patient Controlled Continuous Femoral Nerve Block

Okayama University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Arthropathy of Knee Joint

Treatments: Procedure: PC-FNB without basal local anesthetics; Procedure: PC-FNB with basal administration of local anesthetics

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01198340

TKAFEMORAL-2010

UMIN000004155 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate an analgesic effect without basal administration of local anesthetics for patient-controlled femoral nerve block (with sciatic nerve block) after total knee arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients older than 20 yrs old scheduled for total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

With basal local anesthetics

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: PC-FNB with basal administration of local anesthetics

Without basal local anesthetics

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: PC-FNB without basal local anesthetics