Philippe Marty, Clément Chassery, Olivier Rontes, Corine Vuillaume, Bertrand Basset, Mehdi Merouani, Constance Marquis, Anne De Lussy, Fabrice Ferré, Cécile Naudin, Girish P Joshi, Alain Delbos
BACKGROUND: Many regional anaesthetic techniques have been proposed to manage pain after total knee arthroplasty, but the best approach is unclear. We compared opioid consumption in the first 48 h between two different regional anaesthesia strategies in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty. METHODS: In this single-centre, prospective study, we randomly allocated 90 patients to a combination of IPACK (interspace between popliteal artery and capsule of the posterior knee), triangle femoral and obturator nerve blocks (distal group), or a combination of sciatic, femoral, obturator, and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve blocks (proximal group)...
September 2022: British Journal of Anaesthesia