Prediction of Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02254499

H-3-2014-090

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite improvements in treatment, a significant part of patients have severe pain following knee arthroplasty. Preoperative identification of high-risk patients would allow for an intensive individualized analgesic treatment pre- and postoperatively and thus potentially in reduced pain acute and chronically.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• primary unilateral TKA
• caucasian
• 50 - 80 years
• osteoarthritis

Exclusion criteria

• deficient written or spoken danish
• impairment from psychological og neurological disease
• expected discharged to rehabilitation facility
• anticoagulant therapy
• allergies to analgesic treatment
• hypertension (systolic > 160 / diastolic > 100)
• ASA class ≥ 4