Clinical Trial: Comparing Local Anesthetic Injections to Nerve Blocks for Pain Control After Total Knee Replacement

U.S., Aug. 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07744503) titled 'Comparing Local Anesthetic Injections to Nerve Blocks for Pain Control After Total Knee Replacement' on July 30.

Brief Summary: Why are we doing this study? People who have knee replacement surgery often feel pain afterward. Doctors use different methods to control this pain. One method is an injection of numbing medicine directly into the knee during surgery, called local infiltration analgesia (LIA). Another method uses a thin tube (catheter) placed near nerves in the leg to continuously deliver numbing medicine, called a nerve block. This study compares these two pain control methods after knee replacement surgery, to find out whe...