Enhanced preoperative education about continuous femoral nerve block with patient-controlled analgesia improves the analgesic effect for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty and reduces the workload for ward nurses

Enhanced preoperative education about continuous femoral nerve block with patient-controlled analgesia improves the analgesic effect for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty and reduces the workload for ward nurses

Abstract Background Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the most common treatment for end-stage knee osteoarthritis and continuous femoral nerve block (CFNB) has become the gold standard for analgesia. But the lack of knowledge about CFNB and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) often leads to inappropri...

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Main Authors: Xiaona Lin, Yang Zhou, Hongcai Zheng, Jing Zhang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Kaixi Liu, Jun Wang, Xiangyang Guo, Zhengqian Li, Bin Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
Subjects:
Total knee arthroplasty
Patient-controlled analgesia
Preoperative education
Nursing workload
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-019-0826-3

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