Use of Local Infiltration Analgesia Following Total Hip Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate if multiple postoperative administrations with a solution of ropivacaine, ketorolac and epinephrine into the operating field through a catheter would affect morphine consumption. Secondary end-points are pain intensity, side effects and length of stay.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Aarhus
• Collaborator: Lundbeck Foundation
• Treatments: Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled for total hip arthroplasty

• Patients > 18 years of age

• Signed written informed consent

• Spinal anaesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy towards study drugs

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Body Mass Index > 35 (severe obesity)

• Pregnancy or nursing women

• Regular opioid use

• Patients who can not read or understand danish