Overview

Local Infiltration Analgesia vs Adductor Canal Block for Analgesia After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2018-03-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
Early rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is of paramount importance and requires optimal pain control based on a multimodal concept, including injection of local anaesthetics. Regarding this latter, different options have emerged recently such as the adductor canal block, performed before the surgery by the anaesthesiologist or the infiltration of the articulation performed by the surgeon at the of the intervention. No trial has compared these two approaches. As practice of medicine should be based on evidence, we decided to undertake this randomised controlled trial where we compared the adductor canal block with the local infiltration analgesia technique in terms of pain and functional outcomes
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Treatments:
Anesthetics
Anesthetics, Local
Ropivacaine
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- patients from 18 to 50 years old scheduled to undergo anterior cruciate ligament
reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria:

- peripheral neuropathy

- pre-existing femoral neuropathy

- diabetes mellitus

- alcoholism

- drug addiction

- cancer with chemotherapy

- chronic pain state