Control of postoperative pain following total knee arthroplasty: Is it necessary to associate sciatic nerve block to femoral nerve block?;Controle da dor pós-operatória da artroplastia total do joelho: É necessário associar o bloqueio do nervo isquiático ao bloqueio do nervo femoral?

Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 514-524

  Zugliani, Affonso H ^a,b,c,g   Verçosa, Nubia ^a,d   Do Amaral, José Luiz Gomes ^e,f   Barrucand, Louis ^a   Salgado, Cátia ^d   Karam, Márcia Borges Hage ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Serviço de Anestesiologia do MS INTO   (Brazil)

^c CET SBA do HM Souza Aguiar   (Brazil)

^d Departamento de Cirurgia da FM/UFRJ ^*

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f Associação Médica Brasileira

^g Área de Atuação em Dor SBA/AMB ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Analgesia: postoperative; Anesthetic techniques, regional: femoral nerve block, sciatic nerve block; Surgery, orthopedic: total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; NALBUPHINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 34548843013     PISSN: 00347094     EISSN: 1806907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-70942007000500006     Document Type: Article

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