NCT03256058

Tourniquet Application on Total Knee Arthroplasty

The Effect of Different Applications of Tourniquet on Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial designed to research the effects of different tourniquet applications on postoperative pain in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, and to guide early postoperative recovery.

Detailed description

Sixty participants undergoing unilateral TKA would be recruited in this study. On one side, the tourniquet would be inflated immediately before incision and deflated after the use of the cement , and 10 minutes later(after the hardening of the cement) , reinflate the tourniquet and deflate at the end of the operation. On the other side the tourniquet would be inflated immediately before incision and deflated at the end of the operation.The total time of tourniquet inflation is controlled within 90 minutes. The postoperative pain, limb swelling , the score of surgical field, blood pressure during the operation, blood loss, operating time, transfusion rate, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) incidence and clinical outcomes would be monitored for comparison.

Conditions

• Tourniquets
• Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Reinflation after early deflation	the tourniquet would be inflated immediately before incision and deflated after the use of the cement , and 10 minutes later (after the hardening of the cement) , reinflate the tourniquet and deflate at the end of the operation. The total time of tourniquet inflation is controlled within 90 minutes.
PROCEDURE	Control	The tourniquet would be inflated immediately before incision and deflated at the end of the operation. The inflation of tourniquet should not last more than 90 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-20
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2017-08-21
• Last updated: 2017-10-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China