Comparison of a Pain Pump Versus Injectable Medication for Analgesia in Knee Arthroscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Hypothesis: Ropivacaine, morphine and ketorolac injected after knee arthroscopy is as effective as this solution plus ropivacaine administered intra-articularly for twenty-four hours.

Three groups were assigned random patients, each group provided a different method of pain medication in order to determine the effectiveness of each treatment.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of South Alabama
• Treatments: Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Morphine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: All subjects who underwent:

• knee arthroscopy + synovectomy

• knee arthroscopy + partial or complete meniscectomy

• knee arthroscopy + chondroplasty

• knee arthroscopy + microfracture

• knee arthroscopy + autologous osteoarticular transplantation

Exclusion Criteria:

• A surgical procedure that required an incision other then an arthroscopic portal

• A surgical procedure within the same joint within ninety days

• A acute or chronic knee infection

• Any diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome

• A known allergy to one of the study drugs

• A documented history of narcotic use

• A score of less than two standard deviation on the SF-12 mental component

• Any major systemic or cardiac illness (heart failure, uncontrolled angina, bifascicular blocks, renal insufficiency, or liver disease)

• Under the age of eighteen years