A trial determining whether injections of local anaesthetic in front and behind the hip can make arthroscopic hip surgery less painful

In patients having arthroscopic hip surgery are ultrasound guided anterior and posterior pericapsular injections of local anaesthetic as good as or better than injections of saline alone for relief of pain following surgery

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Phase 4

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000714987

Enrollment

100

Registered

2011-07-11

Start date

2011-11-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Many patients find hip arthroscopy surgery to be very painful in the first few hours following the operation. We think this may be due to the swelling of the hip joint capsule that occurs during this type of surgery. The purpose of this study is to determine whether injecting local anaesthetic medication on both the front and the back of the hip joint, at the start of the operation, will make this surgery less painful.

Interventions

Ultrasound guided injection of single 10ml ropivacaine 0.75% dose, both anteriorly and posteriorly, into the potential space superficial to hip capsule, immediately prior to surgery.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patient’s requiring elective unilateral arthroscopic hip surgery under the anaesthetic care of the principal investigator and the co-investigators.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient refusal 2. Any communicative problem due to deafness or cognitive impairment 3. Allergy to amide local anaesthetic drugs 4. Chronic opioid usage 5. Patient intolerant of all NSAID drugs 6. Infection at site of needle puncture

Outcome results