Femoral and Epidural Block After Total Knee Arthroplasty
CompletedEarly phase 1NCT02115945
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Total knee prosthetic replacement causes severe postoperative pain. Various analgesic techniques have been used in pain control. Comparison of epidural and femoral nerve block is lacking, furthermore effect on chronic pain is unclear. The investigators aimed to compare the effects of epidural and femoral block on acute and chronic postoperative pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison Of Continuous Femoral Nerve Block And Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Interventions
- Other: DN4 test
- Other: The SF 12 test
- Other: HAD scale
- Other: Visual analogue score
- Procedure: femoral block
- Procedure: epidural block
- Sponsor
- Aydin Adnan Menderes University
- Start date
- 2013-02
- Primary completion
- 2014-03
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Clinical diagnosis of total knee arthroplasty Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with pain syndromes * Patients using routinely medications for pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02115945