Ultra Sound Guided Genicular Nerves Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation in Total Knee Replacement Surgeries

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age21+
SponsorAin Shams University

About this trial

Total Knee Replacement surgery is common procedure that is usually done for patients suffering from persistent pain with limitation of movement. Unfortunately, they do suffer after the operation as it is associated still with significant pain that affect the rehabilitation plan, hospital length of stay, life style and patient satisfaction. New approaches are rising every day to add to the multimodal management plan. Genicular nerves cooled radiofrequency ablation is a new approach that can be simply done U.S. guided with little side effects, if any, and great results.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

None

Disqualifiers

• Allergy to any of the drugs used in the study

Alcohol or drug abuse

Psychiatric disease

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • unilateral Radiofrequency

    Procedure/Surgery

    unilateral genicular nerve cooled radio frequency ablation pre-operative

  • bilateral Radiofrequency

    Procedure/Surgery

    bilateral genicular nerve cooled radio frequency ablation pre-operative

  • Epidural

    Procedure/Surgery

    Patients will receive epidural anesthesia intra operative and epidural analgesia post-operative

Treatment groups

66 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: lumber epidural anesthesiaExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: lumber Epidural and unilateral genicular nerve ablation:Experimental treatment 2 interventions
Group C: Epidural and bilateral genicular nerve ablationExperimental treatment 2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

o Epidural rescue doses

rescue doses reflects degree of pain control

Time frame
1st 48 hours

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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