Genicular Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-10-22
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study seeks to examine the analgesic efficacy of genicular nerve blocks for pain after total knee replacement.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects scheduled for primary elective total knee arthroplasty

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status I-III

• BMI 18-40 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to cooperate with protocol

• Inability to understand or speak English

• Allergy to ropivacaine, bupivacaine or other local anesthetic

• Contraindication to peripheral nerve block (e.g. local infection, neurologic deficit or disorder, previous trauma or surgery to ipsilateral knee, etc.)

• Revision knee surgery

• Chronic opioid consumption (daily morphine equivalent of >30 mg for at least four weeks prior to surgery)

• History of chronic pain

• History of psychiatric disorder

• History of diabetes mellitus