Additional Anti-emetic Effect of Ramosetron Prophylaxis After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Phase 4

Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee

Interventions: Drug: Ramosetron

Registration Number: NCT01102491

Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital

Brief Summary: The purposes of this study are to document the antiemetic efficacy of multimodal antiemetic protocol in patient after Total Knee Arthroplasty using regional anesthesia, midazolam \& propofol, hydration \& oxygen supplement, preemptive \& multimodal contemporary pain management and to determine whether Ramosetron prophylaxis would provide additional antiemetic effect on this protocol. We hypothesized that the incidence of Postoperative nausea and vomiting during multimodal antiemetic protocol would be lower than Apfel's expected postoperative nausea and vomiting incidence. It was also hypothesized that Ramosetron prophylaxis would provide additional antiemetic effect.

Detailed Description: Immediate postoperative pain after Total Knee Arthroplasty(TKA) remains an unsolved problem, and a substantial proportion of patients experience moderate to severe postoperative pain. Patient controlled analgesia(PCA) using opioid is an effective and safe modality for postoperative pain relief after TKA and remains an integral part of pain management after TKA. However, Opioid is associated with high incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV) which is the most frequent complication during the first 24 hour after surgery.PONV has been reported to be more distressing than postoperative pain and to be the most undesirable negative outcome. Despite advances in prevention and treatment of PONV, PONV remains a continuing problem with an incidence of 20-30% in unselected patients and up to 70% in "high-risk" patients. As results of current researches, some risk factors of PONV have been identified and indications of prophylactic antiemetics and strategies to reduce baseline risk have been recommended.The recommended modalities to reduce baseline risk includes regional anesthesia, oxygen supplement, use of midazolam and propofol and avoid use of inhaled anesthesia and neuromuscular blockade. In addition,published evidence suggests that appropriate antiemetic prophylaxis should be considered for patients with 2 or more risk factors and to reduce opioid consumption, preemptive multimodal pain management such as preemptive analgesic medication, continuous regional nerve block is recommended.Ramosetron is a newly developed serotonin receptor antagonist with a higher affinity and longer duration of action than that of the previously developed serotonin receptor antagonist such as ondansetron and granisetron. Thus, this prospective blinded randomized study was conducted to document the antiemetic efficacy of multimodal antiemetic protocol to reduce baseline risk, using regional anesthesia, midazolam and propofol, hydration and oxygen supplement and multimodal pain control protocols using the continuous femoral nerve block, PCA and preemptive oral medications and to determine whether Ramosetron prophylaxis would provide additional antiemetic effect in patients after TKA for whom covered by this multimodal antiemetic protocols.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 153

Inclusion Criteria

Diagnosis of primary osteoarthritis, knee
Scheduled for elective total knee arthroplasty
Signed written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Refusing participate
Contraindication to regional anesthesia
Severe impairment of bowel motility
administration of other antiemetics within 24hours before surgery
systemic steroid within 24hours before surgery
history of cardiovascular & respiratory disease
renal & hepatic failure

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Ramosetron prophylaxis	Ramosetron	ramosetron prophylaxis at the end of surgery with starting PCA and 1 day after surgery

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of Nausea and Vomiting	within 48 hours after surgery	outcomes assessor who is blinded to randomization assessed the incidence of postoperative nausea which was defined as subjectively unpleasant sensation associated with awareness of the urge to vomit and an emetic episode and vomiting

Secondary Outcome Measures