Status:

COMPLETED

Peripheral Nerve Blocks vs Periarticular Local Anesthetic Injection for Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)

Lead Sponsor:

Mayo Clinic

Conditions:

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to find a better way to make patients comfortable after their knee surgery. The investigators compared three ways of providing pain relief, either by use of a nerve block ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physiological status I-III
  • Patients presenting for unilateral primary total knee replacement.
  • No focal neurologic deficit of the surgical lower extremity.
  • Cognitively intact with the ability to sign informed consent

Exclusion

  • Chronic pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia or complex regional pain syndrome
  • History of long term use of daily opioids (\>1 months) with oral morphine equivalent (OME) \>5mg/day.
  • Body mass index (BMI) \> 40 kg/m2
  • Allergies to medications used in this study such as: fentanyl, hydromorphone, ketorolac, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, local anesthetics, oxycodone, OxyContin, tramadol, ondansetron, droperidol, or dexamethasone, celecoxib
  • Major systemic medical problems such as:
  • Severe renal disorder defined as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \<50 units/m2
  • Cardiovascular disorders defined as congestive heart failure (CHF) New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV
  • Severe hepatic disorder defined as current or past diagnosis of acute/subacute necrosis liver, acute hepatic failure, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis (primary biliary cirrhosis), fatty liver, chronic hepatitis/toxic hepatitis, liver abscess, hepatic coma, hepatorenal syndrome, other disorders of liver.
  • Impaired cognitive function or inability to understand the study protocol
  • Contraindication to a regional anesthesia technique (e.g., preexisting neuropathy in the operative extremity, coagulopathy \[platelets \< 100,000, International Normalized Ratio (INR) \>1.5\], refusal, etc.).
  • Previous contralateral knee replacement managed with regional or periarticular injection
  • Unable to follow-up at the 3 month interval at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
  • Pregnancy or breast feeding (women of child-bearing potential, must have a negative pregnancy test)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2014

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

165 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02223364

Start Date

July 1 2014

End Date

July 1 2016

Last Update

August 31 2017

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Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905