Comparison of Three Kinds of Postoperative Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Summary

Postoperative pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can be difficult to manage and may delay recovery. There are multimodal postoperative pain management after TKA, including intravenous opioids, epidural analgesia, peripheral nerve blocks or periarticular infiltration with local anesthetics. All of these treatments may lead to side effects such as nausea, headache, hypotension, urinary retention, partial motor block and infection of the knee. Therefore the investigators will compare three methods of postoperative analgesic after TKA by their efficiency and complication.

Timeline

Start

2014-03

Primary completion

2016-06

Completion

2016-06

Publications

• Results Toftdahl K, Nikolajsen L, Haraldsted V, Madsen F, Tonnesen EK, Soballe K. Comparison of peri- and intraarticular analgesia with femoral nerve block after total knee arthroplasty: a randomized clinical trial. Acta Orthop. 2007 Apr;78(2):172-9. doi: 10.1080/17453670710013645.
• Results Serpell MG, Millar FA, Thomson MF. Comparison of lumbar plexus block versus conventional opioid analgesia after total knee replacement. Anaesthesia. 1991 Apr;46(4):275-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb11495.x.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.