Status:

COMPLETED

Adductor Canal Block for Medial Compartment Knee Arthroplasty

Lead Sponsor:

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Conditions:

Postoperative Analgesia

Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-85 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the affects of a single injection ultrasound-guided adductor canal block for patients undergoing robotic-assisted (MAKOplasty) medial UKA (unicompartmental knee arthroplasty)....

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients aged 18-85
  • Undergoing unilateral robotic-assisted (MAKOplasty) medial compartment knee arthroplasty at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
  • Must give written informed consent for anesthesia including subarachnoid blockade and peripheral nerve blockade of both the lumbar plexus and adductor canal.
  • Must consent to the performance of a sham block at the site to which they are not randomized.
  • Must also be reliable to give accurate verbal pain scores postoperatively.

Exclusion

  • Contraindication to adductor canal blockade or lumbar plexus blockade (including significant coagulation abnormalities)
  • History of opioid addiction or current chronic pain therapy for pain other than at the surgical site that is being treated with high-dose opioids (extended release opioids or \> 40mg oxycodone equivalents per day)
  • Allergy to study medications
  • Failure to adequately place either the adductor canal or lumbar plexus blocks.
  • Patients who decline or have a contraindication to subarachnoid blockade will also be excluded from the study.
  • Pregnancy.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 1 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

150 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01818531

Start Date

April 1 2013

End Date

May 1 2015

Last Update

September 13 2018

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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157