Continuous femoral nerve analgesia after unilateral total knee arthroplasty: Stimulating versus nonstimulating catheters

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1565-1570

  Hayek, Salim M ^a,b,c,d   Ritchey, R Michael ^a   Sessler, Daniel ^a,b,c   Helfand, Robert ^a   Samuel, Samuel ^a   Xu, Meng ^a   Beven, Michael ^a   Bourdakos, Demetrios ^a   Barsoum, Wael ^a   Brooks, Peter ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845671309     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000244476.38588.c9     Document Type: Article

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