Status:
COMPLETED
Adductor Canal Block for Medial Compartment Knee Arthroplasty
Lead Sponsor:
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Conditions:
Postoperative Analgesia
Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-85 years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
This study will evaluate the affects of a single injection ultrasound-guided adductor canal block for patients undergoing robotic-assisted (MAKOplasty) medial UKA (unicompartmental knee arthroplasty)....
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients aged 18-85
- Undergoing unilateral robotic-assisted (MAKOplasty) medial compartment knee arthroplasty at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
- Must give written informed consent for anesthesia including subarachnoid blockade and peripheral nerve blockade of both the lumbar plexus and adductor canal.
- Must consent to the performance of a sham block at the site to which they are not randomized.
- Must also be reliable to give accurate verbal pain scores postoperatively.
Exclusion
- Contraindication to adductor canal blockade or lumbar plexus blockade (including significant coagulation abnormalities)
- History of opioid addiction or current chronic pain therapy for pain other than at the surgical site that is being treated with high-dose opioids (extended release opioids or \> 40mg oxycodone equivalents per day)
- Allergy to study medications
- Failure to adequately place either the adductor canal or lumbar plexus blocks.
- Patients who decline or have a contraindication to subarachnoid blockade will also be excluded from the study.
- Pregnancy.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
150 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01818531
Start Date
April 1 2013
End Date
May 1 2015
Last Update
September 13 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157