Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee
Keywords: periarticular multimodal drug injection
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 101
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether periarticular multimodal drug injection (PMDI) would provide additional benefits in patients after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for whom contemporary pain control protocols using the continuous femoral nerve block, intra-venous patient controlled analgesia (IV-PCA)and preemptive oral medications. We hypothesized that PMDI would reduce pain level and consumption of PCA and acute pain rescuer and would provide better functional recovery and patient satisfaction. We also hypothesized that the incidence of side effects and complications of the PMDI would be similar to the No-PMDI.

Detailed description:
The preemptive multimodal approaches are regarded as a current standard pain management protocol. Recently, periarticular multimodal drug injection (PMDI) has been considered to be one of the most effective and important component in multimodal approaches. Because the contemporary pain management protocol using the regional anesthesia, continuous femoral nerve block (FNB) and intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) has been proved significantly improved analgesic effects itself, little information whether the PMDI would provide additional pain relief under this pain management protocol is available. Also, because the safety of the high dose local anesthetics and narcotics has not been clarified, a selective application should be considered to patients who were expected to show better analgesia if there were certain patient related factors to predict the additional pain relief effect of the PMDI. Thus, this prospective double-blind randomized study was conducted to determine whether PMDI would provide additional benefits in patients after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for whom contemporary pain control protocols using the continuous femoral nerve block, IV-PCA and preemptive oral medications in terms of pain relief, consumption of PCA and acute pain rescuer, patients satisfaction, functional recovery, side effects and complications.

Arms:
arm 1: Periarticular injection with ropivacaine, morphine, ketorolac, epinephrine, cefuroxime arm 2: usual postoperative care without periarticular injection

Interventions: intervention 1: ropivacaine intervention 2: morphine sulfate intervention 3: ketorolac intervention 4: epinephrine intervention 5: cefuroxime
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 300mg (0.75%, 40cc) intraoperative periarticular injection intervention 2: 10mg intraoperative periarticular injection intervention 3: 30 mg intraoperative periarticular injection intervention 4: 300 microgram (1:1000) intraoperative periarticular injection intervention 5: 750mg intraoperative periarticular injection

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