Postoperative Analgesia in Bilateral Knee Arthroplasties

Kocaeli City Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peripheral Nerve Block; Knee Arthroplasty, Total; Pain, Postoperative

Treatments: Procedure: Bilateral Suprainguinal fascia iliaca compartment block; Procedure: Local infiltration analgesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06357013

2023-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

To observationally compare the analgesic efficacy of LIA and S-FICB techniques and to record the pain scores of patients who underwent bilateral knee operations in the postoperative period.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Planned elective bilateral knee arthroplasty under spinal anesthesia
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) risk score I-II
• Patients aged 18-75 years

Exclusion criteria

• Those receiving general anesthesia,
• Those with epidural catheters,
• Those who refused to participate in the study,
• Those whose spinal anesthesia failed and returned to general anesthesia,
• Those with a body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m2,
• History of chronic opioid or corticosteroid use,
• Patients with psychiatric or neurological problems that would not allow assessment of pain using a visual analog scale (VAS) will be excluded.
• In addition, patients whose surgery lasted <40 minutes or >120 minutes will also be excluded to keep the data homogeneous.

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Grup-1: Suprainguinal fascia iliaca compartment block

Treatment:

Procedure: Bilateral Suprainguinal fascia iliaca compartment block

Grup-2: Local infiltration analgesia

Treatment:

Procedure: Local infiltration analgesia