Genicular Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Post-operative Pain

In brief

This study seeks to examine the analgesic efficacy of genicular nerve blocks for pain after total knee replacement.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03706313

Run by

Duke University

People needed

40

Starts

2019-01-15

Expected to finish

2019-10-22

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects scheduled for primary elective total knee arthroplasty
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status I-III
• BMI 18-40 kg/m2

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to cooperate with protocol
• Inability to understand or speak English
• Allergy to ropivacaine, bupivacaine or other local anesthetic
• Contraindication to peripheral nerve block (e.g. local infection, neurologic deficit or disorder, previous trauma or surgery to ipsilateral knee, etc.)
• Revision knee surgery
• Chronic opioid consumption (daily morphine equivalent of >30 mg for at least four weeks prior to surgery)
• History of chronic pain
• History of psychiatric disorder
• History of diabetes mellitus

Where it is running

• Duke University Hospital — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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