Total Knee Arthroplasty: Fast Track Protocol is the Future?
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
- Where
- Bologna, ItalySee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 64 people, planned
- Started
- 25 Feb 2019
- Planned end
- 1 Nov 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- fast track care protocol
- standard care protocol
- Record updated
- 22 May 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years to 78 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- patients affected by knee osteoarthritis, eligible for primary total knee arthroplasty
- BMI < 32
- Time up ang go test </= 12 seconds
- American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system (ASA) </= 2
- preoperative hemoglobin (HB) >13 g/dl
- patients eligible for spinal anesthesia
- presence of a care-giver
Who cannot take part
- psychiatric diseases
- preoperative HB < 13 g/dl
- preoperative use of crutches
- ASA > 3
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 78 years old?
Where in Italy
- Istituto Ortopedico RizzliBologna, ItalyContact: Martina Rocchi, MDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Fast-track total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a well-established concept including optimized logistics and evidence-based treatment, focusing on minimizing surgical stress and improved post-operative recovery. The aim of this protocol is to compare the standard care and fast track total knee arthroplasties in terms of functional and subjective outcomes, hospital staying, number of transfusions and analgesic consumption.
The 2 groups in the trial
- fast track total knee arthroplastiesExisting treatment, for comparison
patients treated using fast track care protocol
Treatment: fast track care protocol
- standard care total knee arthroplastiesExisting treatment, for comparison
patients treated using standard care protocol
Treatment: standard care protocol
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Randomised Controlled Study Comparing Fast Track and Standard Care Protocol on the Functional Outcomes and Hospital Stay of Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT03869996, who can take part
- Record updated
- 22 May 2026