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Total Knee Arthroplasty: Fast Track Protocol is the Future?

NCT03869996 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2026-05-22

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Summary

Fast-track total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a well-established concept including optimized logistics and evidence-based treatment, focusing on minimizing surgical stress and improved post-operative recovery. The aim of this protocol is to compare the standard care and fast track total knee arthroplasties in terms of functional and subjective outcomes, hospital staying, number of transfusions and analgesic consumption.

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis, Knee
  • Arthropathy of Knee

Interventions

PROCEDURE

fast track care protocol

fast track care consists in educational preoperative preparation for patients, particular strategies for controlling pain and bleeding and intensive early rehabilitation protocol.

PROCEDURE

standard care protocol

standard care protocol consists in the same surgical intervention without educational preoperative preparation for patients and intensive early rehabilitation protocol.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cesare Stagni, MD · Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
78 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-25
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2026-11-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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