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Does the addition of liposome bupivacaine to bupivacaine HCl lower pain and enhance patient satisfaction in patients having major shoulder surgery?
Does the addition of liposome bupivacaine to bupivacaine HCl lower pain and enhance patient satisfaction in patients having major shoulder surgery?
Adding liposome bupivacaine to standard bupivacaine for interscalene brachial plexus block may improve pain control and patient satisfaction after major shoulder surgery.
Supports adding liposome bupivacaine to interscalene blocks for shoulder surgery; extends evidence of benefit even with multimodal analgesia.
Liposome bupivacaine added to standard bupivacaine may lower pain and enhance patient's satisfaction in the first postoperative week even in the setting of multimodal analgesia for major shoulder surgery.This study was registered with clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02554357) on July 11, 2015, by Principal Investigator Catherine Vandepitte, MD.
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