NCT02689011

Incidence of Urinary Retention in Patients Undergoing Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty- Comparison Between Continuous Epidural Analgesia and Single Shot Femoral Nerve Block- a Randomized Controlled Study (UriKANE)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aga Khan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to compare the incidence of urinary retention and requirement of bladder catheterization in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty while receiving either continuous epidural analgesia or single shot femoral nerve block.

Conditions

• Acute Pain
• Urinary Retention
• Post Operative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Femoral Nerve Block	For patients in Femoral nerve Block Group (Group F), ultrasound guided Femoral nerve block was performed using 0.375% bupivacaine, 20 ml for femoral nerve
PROCEDURE	Epidural	Patients in Epidural Group (Group E) were turned in lateral position for epidural catheter placement in lumbar region. Epidural was loaded with 0.25% bupivacaine and infusion of M2 (Bupivacaine 0.1% + Fentanyl 2mcg/ml) was started at 8 - 12 ml per hour.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2016-02-23
• Last updated: 2016-02-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan