Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 2006
Letter Case ReportsUltrasound-guided femoral nerve block, the safest way to proceed?
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · May 2006
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyComparison of analgesic methods for total knee arthroplasty: metabolic effect of exogenous glucose.
This study was set up to assess whether postoperative suppression of gluconeogenesis by dextrose infusion would be influenced by continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB) with local anesthetics, in comparison with epidural and with intravenous analgesia. ⋯ Excellent analgesia was achieved in the epidural and continuous nerve block groups. Postoperative gluconeogenesis was totally suppressed by dextrose infusion independent of the analgesia technique with no change in glucose utilization.