Efficacy of Peroperative Suction Drain Usage in Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knee Effusion; Knee Hemarthrosis; Chondropathy
• Interventions: Device: No suction drain; Device: Suction drain

• Registration Number: NCT02752581
• Lead Sponsor: Mert Özcan

Brief Summary

The study was designed to investigate efficacy of suction drains in arthroscopic knee surgery, rather than anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. two groups were randomised, and suction drain was applied to one group, and the other group as the control group without a suction drain.

Detailed Description

The groups were compared in terms of patellar shock, knee effusion, knee scoring systems, range of motion, loss of labour, hospitalization time. Also different arthroscopic procedures such as meniscectomy, meniscus repair, synovectomy and microfracture were evaluated in terms of need for a suction drain. The controls was at 1st and 15th day, 6th week and 3rd month.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-01
• Primary Completion: 2012-12
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2016-04
• Study First Submitted: 2016-04-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-04-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-04-26
• Study First Posted: 2016-04-27
• Last Update Posted: 2016-04-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 110

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients with knee derangement and accepted to enroll to the study

Exclusion Criteria

• intraarticular fracture, ACL surgery, arthrotomy, bleeding disorder,

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Group	No suction drain	No suction drain was applied to this group, therefore used as a control group.
Drain Group	Suction drain	Suction drain was applied to these patients after arthroscopic knee surgery.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Activity Pain	3 months	Severity of pain was evaluated with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). VAS is a horizontal line divided into ten equal intervals in which zero represents no pain and 10 represents the worst pain ever felt.
Rest Pain	3 months	Severity of pain was evaluated with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). VAS is a horizontal line divided into ten equal intervals in which zero represents no pain and 10 represents the worst pain ever felt.
Range of Motion	3 months	Range of motion is measures in terms of angular degrees.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Lysholm	3 months	Lysholm is a scoring system from zero to one hundred. It measures subjective complaints of the patients.
International Knee Documentation Committee Score	3 months	is a scoring system from zero to one hundred. It measures subjective complaints of the patients.
hospitalization time	1 month	It is measured in days. It shows the period of hospitalization time, from surgery to discharge.
loss of labour time	1 month	It is measured in days. It shows the time from discharge to beginning of work.