Ultrasound Guided Femoral Nerve Block Catheter Analgesia Compared With Epidural Analgesia for Patients With Knee OA (Osteoarthritis) Who Underwent Unilateral Total Knee Replacement

King Saud University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Other: Ultrasound guided femoral nerve block catheter analgesia compared with epidural analgesia for patients with knee OA (osteoarthritis)

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01586429

E-12-589

Details and patient eligibility

About

Post-operative pain following total knee replacement can be disabling and sometimes lead to the need for prolonged hospital stay. Therefore development of improved post-operative modalities for total knee replacement surgery pain control is important. High-resolution ultrasound (US) allows accurate visualization of nerves and surrounding structures and can lead to higher success rates of nerve block. The investigators aim at comparing the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided nerve block catheter compared with epidural analgesia for patients with knee OA who underwent unilateral total knee replacement.

Sex

All

Ages

30+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male / female, Bilateral or unilateral knee OA (Osteoarthritis), and ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologist classification) 1 and 2.

Exclusion criteria

Bilateral total knee replacement, Revision total knee replacement, previous knee surgery, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Avascular necrosis (AVN) knee, Post traumatic or post infectious OA, ASA3 and 4.