Adductor Canal Block After Total Knee Replacement - a Suture-method Catheter vs a Standard Catheter vs a Single Bolus

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-04-12
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In this study we wish to investigate the analgesic effect of the administration of 0.2% ropivacaine for an adductor canal block as repeated boluses (20 ml every 8 hours) through a new suture-method catheter or a standard perineural catheter compared with a single bolus (20 ml), in patients following primary total knee arthroplasty.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen
• Treatments: Cerivastatin; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled for unilateral total knee arthroplasty in spinal anesthesia

• Patients who gave their written informed consent to participating in the study after having fully understood the contents of the protocol and restrictions

• ASA 1-3

• Ability to perform a TUG test preoperatively

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who cannot cooperate

• Patients who cannot understand or speak Danish.

• Patients with allergy to the medicines used in the study

• Patients with a daily intake of strong opioids (morphine, oxycodone, ketobemidone, methadone, fentanyl) during the last 4 weeks

• Patients suffering from alcohol and/or drug abuse - based on the investigator's assessment

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• BMI > 40

• Neuromuscular pathology in the lower limbs

• Pregnancy