Pain control after primary total knee replacement. A prospective randomised controlled trial of local infiltration versus single shot femoral nerve block

Knee

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 324-327

  Ashraf, Anam ^a   Raut, Videsh V ^b   Canty, Stephen J ^b   McLauchlan, George J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knee arthroplasty; Local infiltration; Nerve block; Pain; RCT

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KNEE DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LOCAL INFILTRATION; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; RCT;

AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84882731152     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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