Benefit of subcutaneous patient controlled analgesia after total knee arthroplasty

• Main Authors: Yusuke Nakagawa (Author), Toshifumi Watanabe (Author), Yusuke Amano (Author), Masafumi Horie (Author), Tomomasa Nakamura (Author), Koji Otabe (Author), Mai Katakura (Author), Ichiro Sekiya (Author), Takeshi Muneta (Author), Hideyuki Koga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: Subcutaneous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) has been widely used for orthopedic surgeries including total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This study aims to clarify the usefulness of subcutaneous PCA in the early phase after TKA. Methods: Our subjects consisted of 88 osteoarthritis knee patien...