The Risk of Falls after Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Use of a Femoral Nerve Block Versus an Adductor Canal Block: A Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1696-1703

  Elkassabany, Nabil M ^a   Antosh, Sean ^a   Ahmed, Moustafa ^a   Nelson, Charles ^b   Israelite, Craig ^b   Badiola, Ignacio ^a   Cai, Lu F ^a   Williams, Rebekah ^a   Hughes, Christopher ^a   Mariano, Edward R ^c,d   Liu, Jiabin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; OXYCODONE; ROPIVACAINE; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADDUCTOR CANAL BLOCK; ADULT; AMBULATION DISTANCE; AMERICAN PAIN SOCIETY PATIENT OUTCOME QUESTIONNAIRE; ANALGESIA; ANESTHETIC CATHETER; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FEMORAL NERVE BLOCK; GAIT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE ORIENTED MOBILITY ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; INNERVATION; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHILADELPHIA; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84961390739     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001237     Document Type: Article

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