A comparison of epidural analgesia with combined continuous femoral-sciatic nerve blocks after total knee replacement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1240-1246

  Zaric, Dusanka ^a,b   Boysen, Klavs ^a   Christiansen, Christian ^a   Christiansen, Jadwiga ^a   Stephensen, Snorre ^a   Christensen, Bodil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION; REST; SCIATIC NERVE; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 33645513668     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000198561.03742.50     Document Type: Article

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