Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02164825
Total Knee Arthroplasty Analgesia: Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block or Epidural?
Comparison Between Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block and Epidural Techniques for Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Single-shot femoral nerve block is similar to continuous epidural technique for postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DRUG | Ropivacaine perineural injection | Ultrasound guided single-shot femoral nerve block |
| DRUG | morphine and ropivacaine | Continuous epidural analgesic perfusion Epidural perfusion with morphine and ropivacaine. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-08-01
- Completion
- 2014-08-01
- First posted
- 2014-06-17
- Last updated
- 2015-02-05
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Portugal
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02164825. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.