Catheter-based Peripheral Regional Anesthesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2019-04-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
BACKGROUND
Total knee arthroplasty can be severely painful, and peripheral regional anesthesia is highly
recommended as part of the perioperative pain treatment. Whether catheter-based techniques
are better than single injection techniques are debatable. Furthermore, in catheter-based
techniques, whether a low-dose automated, periodic infusion can produce similar analgesic
effectiveness compared to a conventional, high dose, continuous infusion has never been
explored.
AIM Comparison of the analgesic effectiveness of a low-dose automated, periodic infusion, a
conventional continuous infusion and patient-controlled boluses only in catheter-based
adductor canal blocks for patients undergoing total knee arthrplasty.