Status:
UNKNOWN
Postoperative Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty With 2ug/ml Fentanyl Combine With 0.2% Ropivacaine or 0.2% Levobupivcaine
Lead Sponsor:
United Christian Hospital
Conditions:
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
Patient-controlled Analgesia
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
Postoperative epidural analgesia (EA) is an effective and well-accepted modality of pain relief technique after having total knee replacement operation(1,4). Patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCE...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- \> 18 years old, ASA I -III and
- Undergoing total knee arthroplasty
- Combine spinal-epidural anaesthesia
Exclusion
- Known hypersensitivity to amide-type local anaesthetics
- Known hypersensitivity to opioids
- Known history of severe cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, neurological or psychiatric disease as judged by the investigator
- Known history of peripheral neuropathies
- Those receiving chronic analgesic therapy, or any contraindication for epidural analgesia (e.g. clotting disorders, or history of lumbar surgery)
- Inability to perform a pain score, or pregnancy or lactation
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
60 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01158586
Start Date
April 1 2010
End Date
December 1 2010
Last Update
July 8 2010
Active Locations (1)
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United Christian Hospital
Hong Kong, Hong Kong