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Does adductor canal block with dexamethasone improve postoperative analgesia compared to femoral nerve block or epidural in patients undergoing elective TKA?
Does adductor canal block with dexamethasone improve postoperative analgesia compared to femoral nerve block or epidural in patients undergoing elective TKA?
The study investigates adductor canal block with dexamethasone as an alternative to femoral nerve block for postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty.
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Adductor canal block with dexamethasone may be considered for TKA analgesia; leaves open comparative efficacy versus femoral nerve block in RCTs.
Peripheral nerve blocks with perineural dexamethasone improve postoperative analgesia for TKA. The addition of dexamethasone to adductor canal block open new possibilities to improve analgesia for TKA, and should be investigated as an alternative to femoral nerve block.
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Ortiz-Gómez et al. (2017) studied this question.
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