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Filter by:This study aims to compare the functional recovery of patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty based on the administration of an adductor canal block during their anesthesia treatment
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The proposed study is a retrospective, observational study. A group of 5 subjects with the AttuneTM cruciate retaining (CR) fixed bearing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are analysed during level walking, a deep knee bend, sitting down onto a chair, standing up from a chair and stair descent at least 12 months post-operatively, in terms of 3D fluoroscopic assessed tibio-femoral TKA motion as well as simultaneous skin marker assessed whole leg motion and ground reaction forces. The obtained information helps the manufacturer (DePuy) to evaluate, bring to market and advance the implant. Furthermore the information will be integrated in a model, which will be developed at the Center for Orthopaedic Engineering, University of Denver. By means of this model, different conditions such as the use of an advanced prosthesis design can be simulated and tested. The objective of this study is in a first step to demonstrate the capability of data collection and analysis of level gait, deep knee bend, sitting down onto a chair, standing up from a chair and stair descent on a limited sample size of five subjects. Secondly to quantify and describe the three-dimensional kinematics for the cruciate retaining (CR), fixed bearing AttuneTM TKA during daily activities such as those mentioned.
The goal of this prospective randomized double-blind study is to compare clinical and radiological results of cemented and uncemented total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Two hundred and fifty patients will be randomized in two groups : cemented TKA and uncemented TKA. The primary outcome is the comparison of the International Knee Society (IKS) Score revised in 2011 at one year postoperative. The second outcome is the comparison of standard one year-postoperative x-rays looking for signs of loosening.
Despite a robust multimodal pain management regimen, patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) continue to report low satisfaction with postoperative pain management. Patient satisfaction further declines with any adverse event such as a drug reaction to neuroleptic medications or a patient fall due to a femoral nerve block. A new method of pain management throughout the hospital experience is warranted to improve patient satisfaction and the possibility of related adverse events. The purpose of this study is to examine if there is a difference in post operative pain and morphine (MSO4) total consumption for hospitalized TKA patients without femoral nerve block receiving an intra-operative periarticular injection of bupivacaine liposome suspension versus a concentrated multi drug.
Post-operative pain after total knee arthroplasty is usually severe and impair the functional recovery of operated joints.The purpose of this study is to determine whether post-operative continuous femoral nerve block analgesia is superior to local wound infiltration combined with intravenous patient controlled analgesia in improving joint function and reducing the incidence of chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP).
The purpose of this study is to find a better way to make patients comfortable after their knee surgery. The investigators compared three ways of providing pain relief, either by use of a nerve block at the femoral and sciatic nerve areas, or with actual injections in the surgical joint area with one of two different medicines, either ropivacaine or liposomal bupivacaine (Exparel®). The hypothesis was that the nerve block at the femoral and sciatic nerve areas would result in lower pain scores and opioid consumption than either of the two injections in the surgical joint area.
A better understanding of knee joint kinematics is important to explain the premature polyethylene wear failures within total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) and to help design a prosthesis that most closely approximates the normal knee. Specifically, posterior stabilizing (PS) knees have been found to be associated with lower amounts of posterior femoral rollback, higher occurrence of reverse axial rotation and increased amount of condylar lift-off. The DePuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction's Attune PS fixed bearing (FB) knee system has incorporated subtle changes in its design to address restoration of kinematics that more closely resemble those of a normal knee. To understand if this design is able to effectively restore kinematics in the implanted knee, further in vivo analysis is necessary. This pilot study will analyze 5 subjects with the Attune PS FB 3 months post-operatively using the University of Tennessee's mobile fluoroscopy unit while performing three daily activities, level walking, ramp down and deep knee bend. Since this is a pilot study, there is no hypothesis.
Several studies exist on patient performance in drive simulators especially around and after surgery. Recommendations concerning the ability to drive preoperatively are based on these studies, which generated their data using drive simulators. However, in all the datasets driving performance remains highly individual. Since a drive simulator is not readily available in normal general practitioner surgeries it would be helpful to have convenient clinical tests to evaluate a patients individual ability to perform an emergency stop. This study aims at evaluating different possibilities how such performance might be predicted. Patients with knee osteoarthritis and patients who have received total knee arthroplasty are tested clinically and their results are compared with the gold standard experiment - a drive simulator.
The objective of this research is to synchronously assess in vivo loading data of the knee joint, tibio-femoral 3D kinematics by means of automated video-fluoroscopy, whole leg kinematics by means of skin markers, ground reaction forces, as well as muscle activity patterns in 4 to 6 subjects with instrumented total knee arthroplasty (TKA) during dynamic functional activities of daily life. The comprehensive in vivo dataset will provide unique information to evaluate the relationship between the kinematics, respectively the alignment of the TKA, and the resulting loading of the implant in vivo. The whole data package will be made available for download on a public database, such that it can be utilized for the testing and improvement of TKA designs as well as for the validation and improvement of musculoskeletal modelling by researchers around the world.