Is changing the postoperative pain management in total knee arthroplasty from femoral nerve block to local infiltration analgesia successful? Retrospective trial with the first and last 100 patients

Abstract Purpose In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in local infiltration analgesia (LIA) as a technique to control postoperative pain. We compared this technique to the gold standard the 3 in 1 femoral nerve block (FNB) in postoperative pain management after total knee arthropla...

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Published in:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
Main Authors: Michael Najfeld, Robert Hube, Ann-Kathrin Kujat, Hermann Otto Mayr, Kathi Thiele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Subjects:
Local infiltration analgesia
Arthroplasty
Replacement
Knee
Nerve block
Pain
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-020-01981-3

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