The efficacy of levobupivacaine, ropivacaine, and bupivacaine for combined psoas compartment-sciatic nerve block in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty

Pain Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 241-247

  De Leeuw, Marcel A ^a,b   Dertinger, Jürgen A ^a   Hulshoff, Lenie ^a   Hoeksema, Martijn ^a,b   Perez, Roberto S ^a   Zuurmond, Wouter W ^a   De Lange, Jaap J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Postoperative analgesia; Psoas compartment block; Sciatic nerve block; Total hip arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OPIATE; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRICK TEST; PSOAS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REST; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PSOAS MUSCLES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 48249100882     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2008.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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