Postoperative Pain Management Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Comparison of Continuous Epidural Versus Femoral Nerve Infusion

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Long ◽  
Samuel Ward ◽  
Lawrence Dorr ◽  
Julio Raya ◽  
Myriam Boutary ◽  
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Arthroplasty ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianda Xu ◽  
Huan Li ◽  
Chong Zheng ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Pengfei Shen ◽  
...  

Abstract Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is considered a cost-effective and efficacious treatment for patients with end-stage knee arthritis. Meanwhile, TKA has been regarded as one of the most painful orthopaedic surgeries. Pain control after TKA remains a challenging task. Many analgesic innovations are used to reduce the level of pain, but none has been proven to be the optimum choice till now. Multimodal analgesia incorporates the use of analgesic adjuncts with different mechanisms of action to enhance postoperative pain management. This approach is a preferable choice in relieving postoperative pain with minimum side effects. This paper aims to review pre-emptive analgesia for pain management in TKA. We reviewed the application of pre-emptive analgesia, its physiological mechanism, and the techniques.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ashley Barry

As the number of total knee arthroplasty surgeries continues to increase and the length of hospital stay is trending down, preoperative education continues to be an important factor to support positive postoperative outcomes. The purpose of this literature review is to examine whether preoperative education for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty affects postoperative pain management compared to those who do not receive this education. Findings from the literature review indicate that receiving preoperative education before a total knee arthroplasty does not impact pain management in the postoperative phase.


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