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Particulate-steroid betamethasone added to ropivacaine in interscalene brachial plexus block for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair improves postoperative analgesia

BACKGROUND: Dexamethasone added to local anesthetic for brachial plexus block improves postoperative pain after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, as compared with the use of local anesthetic alone. Dexamethasone is present in non-particulate form in local anesthetic solution, while betamethasone is...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Kunitaro, Tokumine, Joho, Yorozu, Tomoko, Moriyama, Kumi, Sakamoto, Hideaki, Inoue, Tetsuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0251-9