Three Different Approaches for Ultrasound Guided Femoral Nerve Block for Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

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Conditions studied: Knee Arthroplasty

In brief

Patients scheduled to have a surgery for Total Knee Arthroplasty will be assigned to one of three groups, each group will use a different approach using the ultrasound to guide the femoral nerve block as part of their treatment for controlling pain post-operatively.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01763814

Run by

Chicago Anesthesia Pain Specialists

People needed

108

Starts

2011-12-01

Expected to finish

2019-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18- 90 years old
• Scheduled for total knee arthroplasty

You may not qualify if…

• Redo surgery on the same knee
• BMI ≥45
• Radicular pain in the same leg
• Allergy to local anesthetics
• Opioid habituation
• Pregnancy
• Contraindication to regional block
• Inability to communicate with hospital staff or investigators.
• Neuropathy of any etiology in the surgical extremity.

Where it is running

• Chicago Anesthesia Pain Specialists — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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