Total Knee Arthroplasty Analgesia: Single-shot Femoral Nerve Block or Epidural?

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Single-shot femoral nerve block is similar to continuous epidural technique for postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa
• Treatments: Morphine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elective total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion Criteria:

• Coagulopathy

• Neuropathy

• Morbid obesity

• local anesthetics allergy