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Continuous Distal Adductor Canal Block With Periarticular Local Anesthetic Infiltration Versus Continuous Distal Adductor Canal Block Alone for Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Degenerative Osteoarthritis
Registration Number
NCT05427019
Lead Sponsor
Yonsei University
Brief Summary

Continuous administration of local anesthetics to the distal adductor canal could spread into the popliteal fossa and contribute to analgesic effects on posterior knee pain. Periarticular local anesthetic infiltration is a component of multimodal joint pathways and the posterior knee capsule was among the tissues routinely infiltrated. It is expected that there will be overlapping effects of distal adductor canal block and periarticular injection. Therefore, we aim to compare the postoperative pain in the group that received only continuous distal adductor canal block and the group that received both continuous distal adductor canal block and periarticular injection. Sixty-six patients scheduled for total knee arthroplasty will be randomly divided into the two groups. In group 1, the adductor canal catheter is inserted 2cm above the adductor hiatus. In group 2, the adductor canal catheter is inserted where the nerve block performed in group 1 and periarticular injection are performed intraoperatively.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
66
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Patients aged 19 years old or older, with American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status 1-3, and scheduled for elective unilateral total knee arthroplasty
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Allergy or intolerance to any of the drugs used in the study 2. Hepatic or renal insufficiency 3. Opioid dependency 4. Coagulopathy 5. Pre-existing neurologic or anatomic deficits in the lower extremities 6. Severe psychiatric illness

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Numeric rating scale pain scorepostoperative 1 day morning (08:00-09:00 AM)

Pain intensity at rest evaluated by an 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS: 0 = no pain, 10 = worst imaginable pain)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Numeric rating scale pain scorepostoperative 6 hours, postoperative 1 day afternoon (4:00-5:00 PM), postoperative 2 day morning (08:00-09:00 AM)

Pain intensity at rest evaluated by an 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS: 0 = no pain, 10 = worst imaginable pain)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Yonsei University Health System, Severance Hospital

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Yonsei University Health System, Severance Hospital
🇰🇷Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Yong Seon Choi
Contact
82-2-2224-3919
yschoi@yuhs.ac

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