To Catheterize or Not? in Total Knee Arthroplasty With Combined Spinal-epidural Analgesia

Army Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Urinary Catheter

Treatments: Device: Urinary catheter

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02986061

Knee-UC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to investigate whether urinary catheterization could be avoided for all patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty under combined spinal-epidural analgesia plus multi-site infiltration analgesia.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 40 years and older, who were scheduled for a primary TKA for end-stage osteoarthritis and those who were willing and able to return for follow-up over at least a 1-month postoperative period.

Exclusion criteria

• Revisions, bilateral procedures, surgical history of urinary system, urinary tract infection and systematical conditions (renal disease, renal failure, chronic renal insufficiency, or an indwelling catheter at the time of surgery) needing intraoperative monitoring urine output.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients with indwelling urinary catheter

Treatment:

Device: Urinary catheter

Study Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients without indwelling urinary catheter