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Postoperative Pain Treatment in Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Study to Assess the Effect of Local Analgesia

Postoperative Pain Treatment in Total Hip Arthroplasty A Randomized Double-blinded Placebo-controlled Study to Assess the Effect of Local Analgesia

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT00603083
Enrollment
60
Registered
2008-01-28
Start date
2008-01-31
Completion date
2008-10-31
Last updated
2011-12-09

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Pain, Postoperative

Keywords

Hip Arthroplasty, Treatment Outcome, Local Anesthesia

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the investigator standardized pain treatment plus local pain treatment is more effective than the investigator standardized pain treatment plus placebo in total hip arthroplasty.

Interventions

DRUGRopivacaine, Ketorolac and Adrenalin

The local analgesic with Ropivacaine 200 mg, Ketorolac 30 mg and Adrenaline 1 mg is given 10 and 22 hours after the operation. The medicine solution is administrated in a catheter, which is placed in the hip at the end of the operation.

DRUGPlacebo

This group receive Placebo 10 and 22 hours after the operation. The Placebo is given in a catheter, which is placed in the hip at the end of the operation.

Sponsors

Vejle Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Scheduled for an uncemented unilateral Total Hip Replacement because of osteoarthritis * Willingness and possibility to follow the instructions of the study * 18 years or older * written informed consent and authority after it has been read and understood.

Exclusion criteria

* Operation with anterior approach or using navigation * Do not understand or speech danish * Can not use the pain-score Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) * Special indications for Total Hip Replacement * Anaesthetized in general anaesthesia where a tube is demanded * Daily use of strong opioids, based on the investigators assessment * Fertile women * ASA-score: 3 and 4 * Known allergy against the standardized pain treatment, the study drugs and placebo, Ropivacaine, Ketorolac, Adrenalin. * Treatment with Lithium, Dihydroergotamin, full anticoagulant treatment or MAO-inhibitor * Following illness: * Active gastric ulcer or earlier gastrointestinal bleeding, ulceration or perforation of any kind. * Suspicions of manifest gastrointestinal bleeding and/or cerebrovascular bleeding * Haemorrhagic diathesis * Coagulation disorder * Severe thrombocytopenia * Severe heart insufficiency * Severe risk of postoperative bleeding or delayed haemostatic * Myocardium hypertrophy or ischaemic heart disease * Hypertension * Hypovolemics * Anhydration * angiooedema * Asthma * Bronchospasm * Severe liver insufficiency * Rhinostenosis because of polyostotic * Narrow-angled glaucoma * Phaeochromocytoma * Low plasm-potassium * Thyreotoxicosis

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Pain score24 hours
Opioid Consumption24 hours

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV)3 days
Pain score7 days
Physical function2 month
Fatigue3 days
Opioid consumption3 days

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026