Obturator versus femoral nerve block for analgesia after total knee arthroplasty

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 853-858

  Kardash, Ken ^a   Hickey, Don ^a   Tessler, Michael J ^a   Payne, Stacey ^a   Zukor, David ^a   Velly, Ana Miriam ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CELECOXIB; FENTANYL; KETOROLAC; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; OBTURATOR NERVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RECOVERY ROOM; REST; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE RETENTION;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BUPIVACAINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; KNEE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OBTURATOR NERVE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PYRAZOLES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SULFONAMIDES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548140145     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000278158.36843.f7     Document Type: Article

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