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Adductor Canal Versus Femoral Nerve Block for Analgesia Post Total Knee Arthroscopy

NCT02033603 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2015-01-01

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Summary

Total knee arthroplasty or replacement (TKA) is a surgery performed for osteoarthritis of the knee which is increasingly performed as the population ages. It is a painful surgery and one of the methods to reduce post-operative pain is performing a regional anaesthesia technique. The current practice is to perform a femoral nerve block (FNB) which blocks the nerves supplying the knee joint and the thigh muscles (quadriceps). This provides effective analgesia. However, it also results in weakness of the quadriceps and may result in falls post-operatively.

Adductor canal block (ACB) is a new, alternative regional anaesthesia technique which is hypothesised to provide as effective analgesia, with less quadriceps weakness compared to FNB, hence potentially reducing the risk of falls post-operatively.

Investigators aim to study if the analgesia provided by ACB is as good as FNB while preserving quadriceps strength.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Ropivacaine

30mls of 0.5% ropivacaine

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Changi General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yean Chin Lim, MBBS, MMed · Changi General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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