Femoral nerve block with 0.25% or 0.5% bupivacaine improves postoperative analgesia following outpatient arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament repair

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 24-29

  Mulroy, Michael F ^a   Larkin, Kathleen L ^a   Batra, Manbir S ^a   Hodgson, Peter S ^a   Owens, Brian D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL repair; Ambulatory anesthesia; Arthroscopy; Bupivacaine; Femoral nerve block; Postoperative analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

EID: 0035176444     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rapm.2001.20773     Document Type: Article

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