Postoperative Analgesia After Elective Hip Surgery - Effect of Obturator Nerve Blockade

Summary

The study investigates the effect of an obturator nerve block on the postoperative pain and opioid consumption after total hip replacement.

Timeline

Start

2017-08-15

Primary completion

2018-06-08

Completion

2018-06-08

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper 40.5 (30.5) mg PME in the PCB group (p=0.93). PMID 30679337 ↗

paper A significant reduction in postoperative opioid consumption was not found for active versus PCB ONB after THA. PMID 30679337 ↗

Publications

• Nielsen ND, Runge C, Clemmesen L, Borglum J, Mikkelsen LR, Larsen JR, Nielsen TD, Soballe K, Bendtsen TF. An Obturator Nerve Block does not Alleviate Postoperative Pain after Total Hip Arthroplasty: a Randomized Clinical Trial. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2019 Jan 23:rapm-2018-100104. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2018-100104. Online ahead of print.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Bupivacaine	Other / unclassified	5 mg/ml	—
Background	Epinephrine	Other / unclassified	5 ug/ml	—

Indications

No indication recorded.