Local Anesthetics After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Hvidovre University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Procedure: local infiltration analgesia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00518674

KF01329190

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study is to evaluate the specific role of injection of local anesthetic into the intra- vs. extraarticular tissues after toal knee arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to give informed oral and written consent to participate
• Able to speak Danish

Exclusion criteria

• Treatment with opioids
• Body Mass Index > 40

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind