Pain Control After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis
• Interventions: Procedure: Local pain control; Procedure: Regional pain control

• Registration Number: NCT03032133
• Lead Sponsor: Technische Universität Dresden

Brief Summary

Patients are randomized to receive pain control after Total Knee Arthroplasty with either a regional pain catheter or a local intraarticular pain catheter. Pain, analgetic use and mobility is asessed.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-02
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-24
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-26
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2018-12
• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-02-11
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

Inclusion Criteria

• Indication to Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Chronic pain
• Allergy against local anaesthetics
• Not understanding study or questionnaires

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Local pain control	Local pain control	Local intraarticular pain catheter
Regional pain control	Regional pain control	Regional pain catheter

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
pain	daily until day 7 after surgery	Pain on Visual Analog Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
analgetics	daily until day 7 after surgery	Use of additional analgetics
Mobility	daily until day 7 after surgery	grade of mobility
Function	preoperative, 3 month, 1 year	Knee Society Score
Patient reported outcome	preoperative, 3 month, 1 year	Oxford Knee Score
Quality of Life	preoperative, 3 month, 1 year	EQ 5D

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus; 🇩🇪 Dresden, Germany