Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is considered an extremely painful procedure. Postoperative analgesic technique especially in an elderly with significant comorbidities is even more challenging. Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block is a novel technique that has been described recently as an effective a...

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Autor principal: Thallaj, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31572090
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sja.SJA_299_19
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description Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is considered an extremely painful procedure. Postoperative analgesic technique especially in an elderly with significant comorbidities is even more challenging. Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block is a novel technique that has been described recently as an effective analgesic method for hip surgery. We report a case of a successful PENG and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve blocks for postoperative analgesia in THA.
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spelling pubmed-67537672019-10-01 Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report Thallaj, Ahmed Saudi J Anaesth Case Report Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is considered an extremely painful procedure. Postoperative analgesic technique especially in an elderly with significant comorbidities is even more challenging. Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block is a novel technique that has been described recently as an effective analgesic method for hip surgery. We report a case of a successful PENG and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve blocks for postoperative analgesia in THA. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6753767/ /pubmed/31572090 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sja.SJA_299_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Saudi Journal of Anesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title_full Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title_fullStr Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title_full_unstemmed Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title_short Combined PENG and LFCN blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-A case report
title_sort combined peng and lfcn blocks for postoperative analgesia in hip surgery-a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31572090
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sja.SJA_299_19
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