Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 2000
ReviewMaternal fever, neonatal sepsis evaluation, and epidural labor analgesia.
Numerous studies have found an association between epidural analgesia for labor and maternal fever (temperature > or =38 degrees C). Maternal fever often results in treatment with maternal or neonatal antibiotics, neonatal sepsis evaluation, and increased costs. ⋯ Maternal epidural labor analgesia is associated with maternal fever and possibly increased neonatal sepsis evaluation. There is no proof the relationship is causal.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 1999
ReviewA systematic review of intra-articular local anesthesia for postoperative pain relief after arthroscopic knee surgery.
In a systematic review, we have evaluated double-blind, randomized, controlled trials of intra-articular local anesthesia compared with placebo or no treatment in the control of postoperative pain after arthroscopic knee surgery. ⋯ There is a weak evidence for a reduction of postoperative pain after intra-articular local anesthesia in patients undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery, which although being sinall to moderate and of short duration, may be of clinical significance in day-case surgery.