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Effect of Ambulatory Continuous Femoral Nerve Blocks on Readiness-for-Discharge Following Total Knee Replacement

NCT00419276 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 81

Last updated 2016-09-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To determine if following total knee replacement, putting local anesthetic-or numbing medication-for five days through a tiny tube next to the nerves that go to the knee will decrease the time that patients need to spend in the hospital.

Conditions

  • Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Ambulatory continuous femoral nerve block for 100 hours

Treatment group: 100 hours of ropivacaine femoral perineural infusion. Standard-of-care group: overnight ropivacaine femoral perineural infusion followed by a normal saline infusion.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Brian M Ilfeld, MD, MS · University of California, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-08-31
Completion
2010-08-31

Countries

  • United States
  • Canada

Study Locations

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