postoperative analgesia following total knee arthroplasty
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Surgerypostoperative painOrthopaedicsAnaesthesia
- Registration Number
- PACTR201407000850309
- Lead Sponsor
- Menofia University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
1- patients having osteoarthritis
2- age above 50
3- ASA 1,2,3 patients
4-both sexes
Exclusion Criteria
contraindication to peripheral nerve block (femoral nerve block),ASA IV or V, peripheral neuropathy, acute intercurrent heart disease; chronic opiate use, and known allergic reaction to local an aesthetics, paracetamol or morphine; skin lesions/infection at block site; renal dysfunction, and Patients with systemic infections
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method time to the first analgesia required for pain at the surgical sight;the amount of morphine required in the first 24 hours and comparing the total amount of morphine used in the two studied groups
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method numerical rating pain score (NRS) from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain imaginable) both at rest and on flexion of the operated knee