| Unique ID issued by UMIN | UMIN000011166 |
|---|---|
| Receipt number | R000013078 |
| Scientific Title | A comparison of continuous epidural block with continuous ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty |
| Date of disclosure of the study information | 2013/07/10 |
| Last modified on | 2013/07/10 20:29:27 |
A comparison of continuous epidural block with continuous ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty
Epidural or femoral block after knee arthroplasty.
A comparison of continuous epidural block with continuous ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty
Epidural or femoral block after knee arthroplasty.
| Japan |
gonarthrosis; osteoarthritis of the knee
| Anesthesiology |
Others
NO
We compared the perioperative quality of anesthesia, analgesia, activities of daily living, and complications for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using either epidural analgesia (EA) or ultrasound-guided continuous femoral nerve block (FNB).
Efficacy
We compared the total doses of fentanyl and ropivacaine administered during surgery, and also evaluated complications and postoperative pain using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) at rest and during movement for the first 3 postoperative days (PODs).
Parallel
Randomized
Single blind -investigator(s) and assessor(s) are blinded
Active
2
Treatment
| Medicine | Maneuver |
General anesthesia+epidural block
General anesthesia+femoral nerve bock
| 20 | years-old | < |
| 80 | years-old | >= |
Male and Female
After obtaining institutional ethics committee approval (Saitama Social Insurance Hospital, #112, 12 October 2007, patients scheduled to undergo primary TKA were invited to participate in the study. Written informed consent was obtained from all study subjects.
Exclusion criteria included the following: inability to give informed consent for language or cognitive reasons; contraindications for neuraxial blockade, including patient refusal and platelet count of <100,000 cells.ul-1; contraindications for epidural block, such as current therapy with anticoagulant drugs or infection overlying the proposed injection site; and contraindications to any of the study drugs.
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| 1st name | |
| Middle name | |
| Last name | Mitsuharu Kodaka |
Tokyo Women's Medical University, School of Medicine Medical Center East
Department of Anesthesiology
2-1-10 Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8567, Japan.
| 1st name | |
| Middle name | |
| Last name | MITSHARU KODAKA |
Tokyo Women's Medical University, School of Medicine, Medical Center East
Department of Anesthesiology
TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
Other
NO
| 2013 | Year | 07 | Month | 10 | Day |
Unpublished
Completed
| 2007 | Year | 10 | Month | 12 | Day |
| 2007 | Year | 12 | Month | 01 | Day |
| 2013 | Year | 07 | Month | 10 | Day |
| 2013 | Year | 07 | Month | 10 | Day |
Value
https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000013078