Total Knee Arthroplasty Analgesia: Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block or Epidural?

Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain Treatment for Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments: Drug: morphine and ropivacaine; Drug: Ropivacaine perineural injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02164825

CHTSA001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Single-shot femoral nerve block is similar to continuous epidural technique for postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Coagulopathy
• Neuropathy
• Morbid obesity
• local anesthetics allergy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Single-shot nerve block

Experimental group

Description:

Efficacy compared to epidural

Treatment:

Drug: Ropivacaine perineural injection

Continuous epidural

Active Comparator group

Description:

Continuous epidural perfusion

Treatment:

Drug: morphine and ropivacaine