The Effect of Continuous Femoral Nerve Block With Modulation of Depth of Anesthesia on Prognosis of Patients Receiving Total Knee Arthroplasty

Summary

The interaction of analgesia and sedation ot their effect on the prognosis of surgical patients still need to be elucidated.Currently, how to optimize intra-operative Analgesia and sedation to improve the prognosis of surgical patients is still a mystery.Intra-operative nerve block provided regional analgesia of the operated knee, which reduced the dosages of sedatives and analgesics.Based on a pilot study,the investigators found a decrease of post-operative adverse composite outcomes with the use of continuous femoral nerve block (2% versus 7%) ,therefore, the investigators postulate that general analgesia with lighter sedation in combination with peripheral nerve block could reduce the post-operative morbidity compared with deeper sedation.This randomized controlled trial is designed to test this hypothesis in patients receiving unilateral knee arthroplasty.

Timeline

Start

2016-03

Primary completion

2018-03

Completion

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Publications

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• Background Whitlock EL, Villafranca AJ, Lin N, Palanca BJ, Jacobsohn E, Finkel KJ, Zhang L, Burnside BA, Kaiser HA, Evers AS, Avidan MS. Relationship between bispectral index values and volatile anesthetic concentrations during the maintenance phase of anesthesia in the B-Unaware trial. Anesthesiology. 2011 Dec;115(6):1209-18. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182395dcb.
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• Background Peng J, Wang SD. Effect of anesthesia combined with intercostal nerve block on analgesia for esophageal cancer after operation. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2015 Jun;19(12):2293-6.
• Background Kratz T, Dette F, Schmitt J, Wiesmann T, Wulf H, Zoremba M. Impact of regional femoral nerve block during general anesthesia for hip arthoplasty on blood pressure, heart rate and pain control: A randomized controlled study. Technol Health Care. 2015;23(3):313-22. doi: 10.3233/THC-150898.
• Background De Baerdemaeker LE, Struys MM, Jacobs S, Den Blauwen NM, Bossuyt GR, Pattyn P, Mortier EP. Optimization of desflurane administration in morbidly obese patients: a comparison with sevoflurane using an 'inhalation bolus' technique. Br J Anaesth. 2003 Nov;91(5):638-50. doi: 10.1093/bja/aeg236.

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