General vs Spinal in Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA)

Description

The purpose of this research is to compare post-operative outcomes from patients undergoing TJA. The study team wants to learn about outcomes like length of hospital stay, post-operative pain scores, post-operative nausea, deep and superficial surgical site infection, periprosthetic fracture (a broken bone that occurs around an orthopaedic implant), implant dislocation, readmission rates, and revision rates.

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis, Hip Osteoarthritis

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Study overview

The purpose of this research is to compare post-operative outcomes from patients undergoing TJA. The study team wants to learn about outcomes like length of hospital stay, post-operative pain scores, post-operative nausea, deep and superficial surgical site infection, periprosthetic fracture (a broken bone that occurs around an orthopaedic implant), implant dislocation, readmission rates, and revision rates.

General Versus Spinal Anesthesia for Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Prospective Randomized Trial

General vs Spinal in Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA)

Condition
Knee Osteoarthritis
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Miami

University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States, 33136

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Patients undergoing a primary total hip or knee arthroplasty
  • * Subjects must be capable of providing informed consent
  • * English or Spanish speaking
  • * Prior lumbar surgery with hardware insertion
  • * Elevated intracranial pressure
  • * Infection at the site of the procedure
  • * Thrombocytopenia or coagulopathy
  • * Severe mitral and aortic stenosis and left ventricular outflow obstruction
  • * Severe spine pathology (spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, spondylosis) with radiculopathy and/or neurogenic claudication
  • * Preexisting neurological disease
  • * Congestive heart failure
  • * Severe aortic stenosis
  • * Patient is unable/unwilling to consent
  • * Current pregnancy or women planning on becoming pregnant in the next year, and women who think they might be pregnant, or women who become pregnant during the study period will be removed from the study.
  • * Prisoners

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Miami,

Victor H Hernandez, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Miami

Study Record Dates

2026-03-01