Trial | NCT02164825  Report issue

Title

Total Knee Arthroplasty Analgesia: Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block or Epidural?
Comparison Between Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block and Epidural Techniques for Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Phase

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Interventional

  • Status

    Completed No Results Posted

  • Intervention/Treatment

    ropivacaine morphine ...

  • Study Participants

    60
Single-shot femoral nerve block is similar to continuous epidural technique for postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty
Study Started
Jan 31
2014
Primary Completion
Aug 31
2014
Study Completion
Aug 31
2014
Last Update
Feb 05
2015
Estimate

Drug Ropivacaine perineural injection

Ultrasound guided single-shot femoral nerve block

Drug morphine and ropivacaine

Continuous epidural analgesic perfusion Epidural perfusion with morphine and ropivacaine.

Single-shot nerve block Experimental

Efficacy compared to epidural

Continuous epidural Active Comparator

Continuous epidural perfusion

Criteria 

Inclusion Criteria:

Elective total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion Criteria:

Coagulopathy
Neuropathy
Morbid obesity
local anesthetics allergy
No Results Posted