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Regional Anesthesia for Knee Prothesis Surgery

Regional Blockade for Knee Prothesis Surgery: Comparison Between Femoral, Sciatic and Adductor Canal Block

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02451605
Enrollment
40
Registered
2015-05-22
Start date
2015-06-30
Completion date
2015-12-31
Last updated
2015-05-22

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Conditions

Total Knee Replacement

Keywords

surgery

Brief summary

Comparison of the analgesics blocks (femoral, adductor canal and sciatic subgluteal nerve) for total replacement knee surgery.

Detailed description

Adductor canal block shows a beneficial effect for knee surgery. Mainly because he prevent for muscular weakness; adverse effect meet with femoral block and delaying the early active mobilization. The investigators want to compare the efficacy and safety of this block compared to the femoral and sciatic block.

Interventions

Analgesic nerve blockade (Ropivacaine) for total knee replacement surgery.

PROCEDURETotal knee replacement surgery.

Total knee replacement surgery.

Sponsors

University of Liege
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* patients scheduled for total knee replacement surgery.

Exclusion criteria

* refusal to study, * coagulation disorder, * infection at the puncture site, * preexisting neuropathy, * allergy to local anesthetics, * renal or hepatocellular insufficiency, * context of chronic pain, * drugs abuse, * pregnant patient.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Pain measurement with numeric pain scale : from 0 to 10 (maximal pain) in rest conditionup to day 7Pain assessment and evolution in postoperative period (passive condition)
Pain measurement with numeric pain scale (from 0 to 10) during active motorized mobilization (Kinetic)up to day 7Pain assessment and evolution in postoperative period (active condition)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Postintervention nausea vomitingat hour 0, at hours 6, at day 1question : present or not
Patient satisfactionat day 1Questionnaire of patient felling and satisfaction. Choice within gradual felling : bad, middle, good, excellent
Opioid consumptionup to 48 hoursdoses of piritramid (synthetic opioid) administrated with patient control rescue analgesia device.

Countries

Belgium

Contacts

Primary ContactPierre Goffin
goffin.pjc@gmail.com003243667178
Backup ContactJean-Pierre Lecoq
jplecoq@chu.ulg.ac.be003243667178

Outcome results

None listed

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