A Trial to asses the efficacy of addition of femoral nerve block with 0.2% Ropivacaine to Epidural Analgesia for Post operative pain relief after Total Knee Arthroplasty surgery for 24 hrs.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: - Health Condition 2: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/08/056885
- Lead Sponsor
- Vishnu Bhargav Meka
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients undergoing Total knee arthroplasty undergoing combined Sub arachnoid block and epidural analgesia
Patients who have the ability to give consent and cooperate for the study
Exclusion Criteria
American society of anaesthesiologists physical status >3
Patients with – Infected TKA, History of stroke, Major neurological defect and any spinal pathology that contraindicates Neuroaxial Blockade are not included in study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess analgesic efficacy using VAS score between epidural analgesia alone vs epidural analgesia and femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty patients.Timepoint: Zero minute, fifteen mins, thirty mins, forty five mins, one hour , ninety mins, two hrs, six hrs, twelve hrs , twenty four hrs
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess the total amount of rescue analgesics used for post operative pain for 24hrs.Timepoint: for twenty four hours