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Incidence of Adductor Canal Catheter Dislodgment

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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments

Procedure: Adductor Canal Catheter

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to determine the incidence of dislodgement for adductor canal catheters after total knee arthroplasty on post-operative day 1. We will also attempt to identify factors associated with secondary catheter failure.

Full description

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common procedure for indications including osteoarthritis and malignancy involving the knee, with over 55,285 knee replacements performed between 2020-2021 in Canada. Ultrasound guided continuous adductor canal block (cACB) is the standard of care for postoperative analgesia for this procedure. The catheter is not always as effective at providing analgesia as would be expected - which could be due to displacement of the catheter. This displacement is most likely to occur peri-operatively or during physiotherapy post-operatively and as such, post-operative assessments can provide useful insight into causes of secondary failure. This prospective observational study aims to estimate the cACB dislodgment on POD 1 rate at a high volume, tertiary care referral centre, and identify factors associated with dislodgement and clinical sequelae. As this is an observational/QI study of the current standard of care at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, anesthesiologists are free to use the cross sectional versus parallel insertion of the cACB per their discretion.

Enrollment

100 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

50+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients scheduled for Total Knee Arthroplasty
  • Older than 50 years

Exclusion criteria

  • Body Mass Index greater than 40
  • Chronic opioid consumption (greater than 30mg oral morphine equivalent daily)
  • Contraindication to Adductor Canal Catheter

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Adductor Canal Catheter
Description:
Pre-operative adductor canal catheter placement
Treatment:
Procedure: Adductor Canal Catheter

Trial contacts and locations

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