Effect of Ambulatory Continuous Femoral Nerve Blocks on Readiness-for-Discharge Following Total Knee Replacement

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

81

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2007

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2010

Study Completion Date

August 31, 2010

Conditions
Total Knee Arthroplasty
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Ambulatory continuous femoral nerve block for 100 hours

Treatment group: 100 hours of ropivacaine femoral perineural infusion. Standard-of-care group: overnight ropivacaine femoral perineural infusion followed by a normal saline infusion.

Trial Locations (4)

32610

University of Florida, Gainesville

92103

University of California San Diego, San Diego

94705

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley

M4N3M5

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Holland Orthopedic and Arthritic Centre, Toronto

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Florida

OTHER

collaborator

Stryker Instruments

INDUSTRY

lead

University of California, San Diego

OTHER

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