The effects of femoral nerve blockade in conjunction with epidural analgesia after total knee arthroplasty

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 891-895

  YaDeau, Jacques T ^a   Cahill, Janet B ^a   Zawadsky, Mark W ^a   Sharrock, Nigel E ^a   Bottner, Friedrich ^a   Morelli, Christine M ^a   Kahn, Richard L ^a   Sculco, Thomas P ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCODONE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROMORPHONE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; OXYCODONE PLUS PARACETAMOL; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSESTHESIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVALUATION; FEMORAL NERVE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; JOINT MOBILITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

EID: 23944509074     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000159150.79908.21     Document Type: Article

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