Effect of Local Infiltration Anesthesia in a Hip Arthroplasty Fast Track Program.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Fast-track programs in Orthopaedic Surgery require early motion that can only be achieved by optimal pain management protocols. Multimodal analgesia protocols including local infiltration anesthesia (LIA) have obtained excellent results in fast-track programs involving Total Knee Arthroplasty but further research and data is needed in Total Hip Arthoplasty programs.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Mutua de Terrassa
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Racepinephrine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hip osteoarthritis requiring Total Hip Replacement

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mental Disorders

• contraindications for epidural anesthesia

• Neurologic disorders that could interfere with pain evaluation

• allergy to drugs in multimodal analgesic protocol