Perioperative Pain Management in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Narrative Review of Current Multimodal Analgesia Protocols
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Abstract
Since there is no consensus on the optimal perioperative analgesic method, the present article provides a brief and practical synthesis on current multimodal pre–postsurgery analgesia protocols for primary TKA (excluding intraoperative anesthetic techniques) reported especially in recent meta-analyses and reviews. The focus is not only on the traditional aims (pain scores and opioid sparing), but also the functional recovery and patient-reported outcomes. Multimodal analgesia (pre-emptive analgesia, local infiltration analgesia, peripheral nerve blocks, and specific systemic drugs) is considered the optimal regimen for perioperative pain management of TKA.
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OpenAlex topics: Anesthesia and Pain Management · Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes · Shoulder Injury and Treatment
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Perioperative Medicine—Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department, U.O.C Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Via Bissolati 57, 25124 Brescia, Italy
Sezione di Chirurgia Protesica ad Indirizzo Robotico—Unità di Traumatologia dello Sport, U.O.C Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Via Bissolati 57, 25124 Brescia, Italy
IUSS Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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