The Chitranjan Ranawat Award: Periarticular Injections and Femoral & Sciatic Blocks Provide Similar Pain Relief After TKA: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-53

  Spangehl, Mark J ^a   Clarke, Henry D ^a   Hentz, Joseph G ^a   Misra, Lopa ^a   Blocher, Joshua L ^a   Seamans, David P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; AWARDS AND PRIZES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; AGED; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925283141     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3603-0     Document Type: Article

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