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Intraarticular Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty, a Randomised Study

NCT00269529 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2006-10-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study aims to compare two different kinds of pain treatment after total knee replacement (operation with artificial knee joint): 1) a large local injection in and around the knee, supplemented with injection the day after, or 2) the department's conventional pain treatment consisting of continuous nerve block in the groin.

Conditions

  • Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

Interventions

PROCEDURE

femoral nerve block

PROCEDURE

knee infiltration and injection via catheter

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Danish Medical Research Council

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Else Tønnesen, Professor · Department of Anesthesiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

  • Kjeld Søballe, Professor · Orthopedic Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-02-28
Completion
2006-03-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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