The Clinical journal of pain
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Pain relief after arthroscopic knee surgery: intravenous morphine, epidural morphine, and intra-articular morphine.
The aim of this study was to compare the analgesic efficacy and side effects of intravenous (IV), epidural, and intra-articular (IA) morphine after arthroscopic knee surgery. ⋯ Patients who received IA morphine consumed less rescue analgesia than those who received IV morphine. They also reported fewer side effects than those patients who received epidural morphine. Intra-articular morphine may be the method of choice for pain relief after arthroscopic knee surgery.