Local Infiltration Analgesia vs Adductor Canal Block for Analgesia After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Early rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is of paramount importance and requires optimal pain control based on a multimodal concept, including injection of local anaesthetics. Regarding this latter, different options have emerged recently such as the adductor canal block, performed before the surgery by the anaesthesiologist or the infiltration of the articulation performed by the surgeon at the of the intervention. No trial has compared these two approaches. As practice of medicine should be based on evidence, we decided to undertake this randomised controlled trial where we compared the adductor canal block with the local infiltration analgesia technique in terms of pain and functional outcomes

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients from 18 to 50 years old scheduled to undergo anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria:

• peripheral neuropathy

• pre-existing femoral neuropathy

• diabetes mellitus

• alcoholism

• drug addiction

• cancer with chemotherapy

• chronic pain state