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General vs. Intrathecal Anesthesia for Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT01312298 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2013-03-07

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Summary

Hypothesis: General anesthesia as compared to intrathecal (i.e. spinal anesthesia) anesthesia will result in shorter length of hospital stay for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.

Primary endpoint: time from end of surgery until the patient is "street ready"

Secondary endpoints: will general anesthesia produce less postoperative pain as compared to intrathecal anesthesia? Is there any difference in post operative "dizziness" between the groups.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

General anesthesia

Patients will receive general anesthesia using propofol 10 mg/ml and remifentanil 50 ug/ml

PROCEDURE

Regional anesthesia

Patients will receive intrathecal anesthesia

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Skane

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sören Toksvig-Larsen, M.D. PhD · Dept Ortopedic surgery, Hässleholm Hospital, SWEDEN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • Sweden

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