Does central sensitization affect hyperalgesia after staged bilateral total knee arthroplasty? A randomized controlled trial.

J Int Med Res

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Published: September 2020

Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) patients who undergo staged bilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA) feel postoperative hyperalgesia in the second operated knee compared with the first knee. Ketamine is an important drug for central temporal summation and inhibition of secondary mechanical hyperalgesia. This study investigated whether central sensitization has a significant effect on hyperalgesia after consecutive operations.

Methods: Seventy-one of 80 OA patients were randomly allocated to the ketamine or saline group. A bolus of ketamine (group K) or saline (group C) (0.5 mg/kg) was injected before induction and at an infusion rate of 3 µg/kg/minute during surgery. A visual analog scale (VAS) was used to assess resting and moving pain and opioid consumption on postoperative days 1, 2, and 3.

Results: The difference in the VAS score between stages 1 and 2 (D) was higher in the ketamine compared with the saline group. D for movement between the two groups was not inferior for all periods. Ketamine did not show a large analgesic effect on second-operated knee hyperalgesia in staged bilateral TKAs.

Conclusions: We could not confirm that hyperalgesia was only related to central sensitization with low-dose ketamine. Other factors might be also associated with the hyperexcitability of nociceptive stimuli.Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS) trial registry no: KCT0001481.

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