Novel Regional Techniques for Total Knee Arthroplasty Promote Reduced Hospital Length of Stay: An Analysis of 106 Patients.

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that an IPACK block reduced opioid consumption by providing effective supplemental analgesia following TKA compared to the FNC-only technique. ACB with IPACK provided equivalent analgesia and improved physical therapy performance, allowing earlier hospital discharge. PMID: 29026354 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026354?dopt=Abstract

Source: Ochsner Journal - October 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Ochsner J Source Type: research