Efficacy of Ipack Block and Surgeon's Joint Infiltration in Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Total knee arthroplasty(TKA) is an effective modality for the treatment of advanced osteoarthritis of the knee joint with excellent outcomes. With 719,000 cases being performed as of 2010, the incidence is expected to increase up to 3.48 million procedures annually by 2030.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA (American Society of Anesthesiology) class I-IV

• age 18-75.

Exclusion Criteria:

• ASA class V

• morbid obesity

• patient refusal

• patients with chronic pain or on pain medication

• allergy to LA

• patients receiving any additional regional techniques

• coagulopathy

• patients receiving systemic anticoagulation

• local infection and procedures anticipated to last more than 5 hours.