Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Total Knee Replacement (TKR) With a Transitional Pain Service



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Hospital
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 65
Updated:2/10/2019
Start Date:November 16, 2018
End Date:September 2020
Contact:Nicole Brunetti, BS
Email:brunettin@hss.edu
Phone:6467146794

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Expanding the Peri-operative Surgical Home Model: ERAS TKR With a Transitional Pain Service (TeleTPS)- Continuous Adductor Canal Catheter Versus Adductor Canal Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty, a Randomized Double-blind Controlled Trial

A comparison of two anesthetic techniques for total knee replacements: (1) Peri-Articular
Injection (PAI), local infiltration between the popliteal artery and capsule of the knee
block (IPACK) and single-shot adductor canal block (ACB) vs. (2) PAI, IPACK and continuous
adductor canal block catheter (ACC).

Patients will be randomized to one of two groups: one group will receive a PAI, IPACK and
single-shot adductor canal block; one group will receive PAI, IPACK and continuous adductor
canal block catheter.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with osteoarthritis scheduled for a primary total knee arthroplasty with a
participating surgeon

- Planned use of regional anesthesia

- Ability to follow study protocol

- English speaking (secondary outcomes include questionnaires validated in English only)

- Lives within one hour of the hospital

- Has a smart phone

Exclusion Criteria:

- Hepatic or renal insufficiency

- Younger than 18 years old or older than 65 years ol

- Patients undergoing general anesthesia

- Allergy or intolerance to one of the study medications

- BMI >40

- Diabetes

- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status III or IV

- Chronic gabapentin/pregabalin use (regular use for longer than 3 months)

- Patients with chronic pain (from a referral to chronic pain service) or a pain
catastrophizing scale (PCS >30)

- Patients with severe valgus deformity or flexion contracture

- Patients unable to follow home catheter instructions and unwilling to go home with an
infusing catheter

- Patients who have no home caregivers in the event that a catheter is to be sent home
with the patient

- Patients with planned stay at rehab facility (to avoid medical device being tampered
with at the rehab facility)

- Non-English speakers (secondary outcomes include questionnaires validated in English
only)
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Principal Investigator: David Kim, MD
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