Status:

COMPLETED

Single Shot Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) Block in Total Hip Replacement (THR)

Lead Sponsor:

Tuen Mun Hospital

Conditions:

Total Hip Replacement

Analgesia

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Total hip replacement is a common orthopaedic procedure that improves pain and mobility in a variety of pathologies like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and avascular necrosis. Post-operative com...

Detailed Description

After a pilot study regarding opioid use for patient after THR, the sample size for either treatment or control arm is calculated to be 35 patients per group to achieve adequate power to detect such a...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients (age \>=18)
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class 1-3
  • primary elective unilateral THR
  • understand and accept the risk for general anaesthesia and ESP block
  • counselled of post-operative patient controlled analgesia (PCA) and deemed fit for its use.

Exclusion

  • emergency THR
  • bilateral THR
  • revision THR
  • THR done under neuraxial technique (e.g. spinal anaesthesia, combined spinal epidural anaesthesia)
  • Patient with contraindication for ESP block (i.e. patient refusal, injection site infection or spine pathology/surgery, coagulopathy with international normalised ratio (INR) \> 1.4 and thrombocytopenia \< 75 x 10\^9/L)
  • patient who are mentally incompetent
  • severe obesity (Body Mass Index \>= 35)
  • severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (Apnoea hypopnoea index \>= 30, no matter on treatment or not)
  • patient on regular strong opioid (e.g. morphine, oxycodone, methadone, buprenorphine, fentanyl)
  • patient who have undergone hip neurolysis

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

November 20 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

71 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04388553

Start Date

July 1 2020

End Date

November 20 2021

Last Update

April 16 2024

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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Tuen Mun Hospital

Hong Kong, Hong Kong