NCT01509729

Topical Lidocaine After Major Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

Topical Lidocaine Patch Does Not Have an Analgesic Effect After Major Arthroscopic Knee Surgery. A Double-blind Place-controlled Randomized Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pain after major arthroscopic surgery is dependent on an optimal multimodal analgesic treatment.

Detailed description

Lidocaine is well-known as analgesic treatment on skin and hypodermic veins. Since 1996 it has been documented that topical lidocaine has an analgesic effect 24 hours after surgical treatment. The aim is to determine a possible reduction in pain after knee arthroscopy with topical lidocaine.

Conditions

• Fracture of Patella
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Sham operation	A randomized group of patients received a placebo patch. As a supplement, each patient was given a dose of morphine, as required.
PROCEDURE	Knee arthroscopic surgery	A randomized group of patients was given small patches with active 5% lidocaine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-01-01
• Completion: 2012-01-01
• First posted: 2012-01-13
• Last updated: 2015-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark