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

Phase 4

• Conditions: Pain reduction following athroscopic hip surgery; Anaesthesiology - Pain management

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000714987
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Auckland

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-07-11
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reduction in postoperative pain scores measured with a 10cm visual analogue scale, with 0 being no pain ,and 10 being the worst pain imaginable[On emergence from anaesthesia, and at 1, 2, 6 and 24 hours postoperatively]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dose of postoperative morphine required to control postopertive pain[On emergence from anaesthesia, and at 1, 2, 6 and 24 hours postoperatively]