NCT01303120

Does a Single Shot Femoral Nerve Block Alone Produce Appropriate Pain Relief?

Does a Single Shot Femoral Nerve Block Alone Produce Appropriate Pain Relief After Total Knee Arthroplasty or Should an Addition of Sciatic, Obturator and Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Blocks be Recommended?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 107 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of the analgesic effect of the preoperative femoral nerve block alone versus combined femoral, sciatic, obturator and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve blocks in patients after TKA in the immediate postoperative period.

Detailed description

Bupivacaine will be used for all the nerve blocks.

Conditions

• Post-operative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Femoral Nerve Block	Preoperative Bupivacaine 0.5%, perineurally as single shot
DRUG	Combined nerve blocks	Preoperative Bupivacaine 0.5%, perineurally as single shot
DRUG	Patient-controlled analgesia	Patient controlled analgesia with morphine

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2011-02-24
• Last updated: 2015-01-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel