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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01332045
Date of registration: 07/04/2011
Primary sponsor: Henning Lykke Andersen
Public title: Continuous Saphenous Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty
Scientific title: Continuous Saphenous Nerve Block (Adductor Channel) and Local Infiltration Analgesia (LIA) for Total Knee Arthroplasty
Date of first enrolment: April 2011
Target sample size: 40
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01332045
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:   Henning L. Andersen, M.D.
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Affiliation:  Frederiksberg Hospital
Name:   Dusanka Zaric, M.D., Ph.d.
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Affiliation:  Frederiksberg Hospital.
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- ASA I-III

- Age: 40-75

- Unilateral TKA

- Use of Spinal anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

- Allergy to any of the study medications

- Intolerance to morphine

- Contraindication to a spinal anesthetic

- Intraoperative use of any volatile anesthetic

- Chronic opioid use

- ASA Class 4-5

- Rheumatoid arthritis or Diabetes mellitus with neuropathy

- Liver or kidney failure

- BMI above 40

- Severe COPD



Age minimum: 40 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pain, Postoperative
Intervention(s)
Procedure: continuous saphenous nerve block
Procedure: Saline boluses in nerve catheter
Primary Outcome(s)
Pain scores [Time Frame: 3 days postoperative]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Opioid consumption [Time Frame: 3 days postoperative]
physical therapy progress [Time Frame: 3 days postoperative]
Secondary ID(s)
H-3-2010-124
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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