NCT01409278

Local Anesthetic Infiltration and Infusion for Pain Control After Hip Replacement

The Evaluation of the Efficacy of Local Infiltration Analgesia and Infusion for Total Hip Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Trinity Health Of New England · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine three different ways to control pain after hip replacement: 1. One time injection of ropivacaine before wound closure 2. One time injection of ropivacaine before wound closure plus slow release of ropivacaine via catheter for 48 hours 3. Standard practice of patient controlled pump

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ropivacaine infiltration and saline infusion.	50ml ropivacaine 0.2% with keterolac 15mg infiltration followed by normal saline infusion at 5ml per hour
PROCEDURE	Ropivacaine infiltration and infusion.	50 ml infiltration of ropivacaine 0.2% and ketorolac 15mg admixture followed by ropivacaine 0.2 % at 5ml per hour infusion for 48 hours.
PROCEDURE	Normal Saline	50ml of normal saline infiltration followed by normal saline infusion at 5ml per hour

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-07-01
• Completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2011-08-04
• Last updated: 2011-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States