Analgesia following total knee arthroplasty

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-80

  Trueblood, Andrew ^a   Manning, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Chicago Hospitals ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Knee arthroplasty; Multimodal analgesia; Nerve block; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CELECOXIB; CODEINE; HYDROCODONE; KETOROLAC; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PROCHLORPERAZINE; ROFECOXIB; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL;

ANALGESIA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH DISEASE; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 33845425646     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCO.0b013e3280119635     Document Type: Review

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