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The threshold elicited motor response via an in situ femoral nerve catheter predicts analgesia following total knee replacement

BACKGROUND: Continuous femoral nerve blocks are a part of the multimodal perioperative anesthetic regimen following total knee replacement. Elicitation of a quadriceps muscle contraction (QC) at placement is desirable. We prospectively evaluated the relationship between elicited motor response and t...

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Autores principales: Nader, Antoun, Kendall, Mark C, Chung, Brian, Chekka, Kiran, Malik, Khalid, McCarthy, Robert J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22915877
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/LRA.S12208