Femoral nerve blocks for acute postoperative pain after knee replacement surgery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Chan, Ee Yuee ^a,b   Fransen, Marlene ^a   Parker, David A ^c   Assam, Pryseley N ^d,e   Chua, Nelson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c Sydney Orthopaedic Research Institute   (Australia)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^e Singapore Clinical Research Institute Pte   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG USE; EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; FEMORAL NERVE; FEMORAL NERVE BLOCK; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; META ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; URINE RETENTION; ANALGESIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROCEDURES;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84924983653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009941.pub2     Document Type: Review

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