Pain Control After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Technische Universität Dresden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Procedure: Local pain control; Procedure: Regional pain control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03032133

TKA pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients are randomized to receive pain control after Total Knee Arthroplasty with either a regional pain catheter or a local intraarticular pain catheter. Pain, analgetic use and mobility is asessed.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Indication to Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Chronic pain
• Allergy against local anaesthetics
• Not understanding study or questionnaires

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Regional pain control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Regional pain catheter

Treatment:

Procedure: Regional pain control

Local pain control

Experimental group

Description:

Local intraarticular pain catheter

Treatment:

Procedure: Local pain control