Does Continuous Adductor Canal Nerve Block Improve the Quality of Recovery for Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients?
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2020-04-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This is a randomized, double-blinded pilot study to determine whether patients undergoing
ambulatory total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using a subvastus approach benefit from the addition
of a continuous adductor canal nerve block (cACB) catheter along with an existing multimodal
approach to postoperative analgesia. Outcomes include the 15-item Quality of Recovery Scale
(QoR-15) (Miles 2016), pain scores, opioid consumption, opioid-free days, functional outcome
as measured by the Time Up and Go (TUG) test, patient satisfaction, patient's rating of
catheter effectiveness, and complications.