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Local Anaesthetic Infiltration and Indwelling Postoperative Wound Catheters for Patients with Hip Fracture Reduce Death Rates and Length of Stay

Background. An analgesic enhanced recovery (ER) protocol for patients with a hip fracture was introduced. It was hypothesised that the ER would reduce pain, length of stay and improve clinical outcomes. The protocol used intraoperative infiltration of levobupivacaine followed by ongoing wound infusi...

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Autores principales: Harrison, William D., Lees, Deborah, A'Court, Jamie, Ankers, Thomas, Harper, Ian, Inman, Dominic, Reed, Mike R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26649330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/316817