Postoperative analgesia after knee surgery: A comparison of three different concentrations of ropivacaine for continuous femoral nerve blockade

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 256-262

  Brodner, Gerhard ^a   Buerkle, Hartmut ^b   Van Aken, Hugo ^c   Lambert, Roushan ^a   Schweppe Hartenauer, Marie Luise ^a   Wempe, Carola ^c   Gogarten, Wiebke ^c  

^a Fachklinik Hornheide ^*  (Germany)

^b Memmingen Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AMIDES; ANALGESIA; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34250893196     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000265552.43299.2b     Document Type: Article

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