Tibial Nerve Versus Sciatic Nerve Block

Trinity Health Of New England

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post Operative Analgesia

Treatments: Procedure: Sciatic Nerve Block; Procedure: Selective Tibial Nerve block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01415193

09-02-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to analyse the ability to selectively block the posterior tibial nerve sparing the function of the common peritoneal nerve. To assess the efficacy of blocking the posterior tibial nerve will give the same post-operative pain relief after total knee surgery compared to a sciatic nerve block.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• total knee replacement

Exclusion criteria

• History of neuralgia, diabetes, pregnancy, allergy to local anesthetic solutions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Selective Tibial Nerve Block

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Selective Tibial Nerve block

Control: Sciatic Nerve Block

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Sciatic Nerve Block