NCT01733472

General or Regional Anesthesia for Hip Surgery

General Versus Intrathecal Anaesthesia for Patients Undergoing Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Region Skane · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 46 Years – 84 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether general anaesthesia or regional anaesthesia is best for patients undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a follow up time of 48 hrs. Patients scheduled for primary Total Hip Arthroplasty. A total of 120 patients randomly assigned to one of the two alternatives (general anaesthesia (GA) or regional anaesthesia (RA)). General anaesthesia compared to intrathecal anaesthesia will give shorter length of hospital stay (LOS) for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA). Primary endpoint: LOS. Secondary endpoints: Postoperative pain? Postoperative orthostatic function (dizziness) Time until the patient meets the discharge criteria from PACU How many patients will need at least one urinary bladder catheterisation

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	GA-arm, remifentanil	Remifentanil and propofol will be delivered intravenously via TCI pumps according to the "Marsh" and "Minto" algorithm
DRUG	RA-arm	Intrathecal (i.e. spinal) anesthesia with isobaric bupivacaine 15 mg administered intrathecally at L4-L5.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2012-11-27
• Last updated: 2019-06-19
• Results posted: 2019-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden