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Short- Versus Long-duration Tourniquet Use During Total Knee Replacement (TKR)

NCT01162720 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2011-03-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To establish whether a short duration of tourniquet application (from cement fixation to cement setting)is associated with better patient functional outcomes compared to a long duration of tourniquet application (from surgical incision to cement setting).

It is hypothesised that tourniquet application during cement fixation only (approximately of 20-30 min duration) will be associated with less pain and impairment than a longer tourniquet application (\> 45 minutes).

Conditions

  • Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Long duration tourniquet

Patients randomised to this arm will have the tourniquet applied at the commencement of surgery and removed prior to wound closure.

PROCEDURE

Short duration tourniquet

Patients assigned to this arm will have the tourniquet applied during cement fixation of the prosthesis only (ie removed just prior to wound closure).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fairfield Hospital, Australia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jay Dave, MBBS · Surgeon at Fairfield Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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