Safety and Efficacy of Cocktail Periarticular Injection in Simultaneous Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

We investigated the safety and efficacy of the bilateral periarticular cocktail injection at a reduced dosage in patients undergoing simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
• Treatments: Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Fentanyl; Morphine; Racepinephrine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with tricompartmental knee disease undergoing simultaneous bilateral TKA

Exclusion Criteria:

• diabetes mellitus

• neuromuscular deficit

• a known allergy to one of the drugs being injected

• a history of cardiac disease or arrhythmia requiring special monitoring