Actively Recruiting
General vs Spinal in Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA)
Led by University of Miami · Updated on 2026-03-18
2396
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
264 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The purpose of this research is to compare post-operative outcomes from patients undergoing TJA. The study team wants to learn about outcomes like length of hospital stay, post-operative pain scores, post-operative nausea, deep and superficial surgical site infection, periprosthetic fracture (a broken bone that occurs around an orthopaedic implant), implant dislocation, readmission rates, and revision rates.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
General vs Spinal in Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA)
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patients undergoing a primary total hip or knee arthroplasty
- Subjects must be capable of providing informed consent
- English or Spanish speaking
You will not qualify if you...
- Prior lumbar surgery with hardware insertion
- Elevated intracranial pressure
- Infection at the site of the procedure
- Thrombocytopenia or coagulopathy
- Severe mitral and aortic stenosis and left ventricular outflow obstruction
- Severe spine pathology with radiculopathy and/or neurogenic claudication
- Preexisting neurological disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Severe aortic stenosis
- Patient unable or unwilling to consent
- Current pregnancy or planning pregnancy within next year or suspected pregnancy
- Prisoners
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
V
Victor H Hernandez, MD
CONTACT
A
Antonio M Fernandez-Perez, MS
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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