The effects of continuous catheter adductor canal block for pain management in knee replacement therapy: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adductor canal block has emerged as a favourable element of multimodal analgesia regimens for total knee arthroplasty, due to the exclusive sensory blockade it provides. However, it is controversial as to whether a single shot or continuous technique adductor canal block is superior. This meta-analysis examined the effect of both these techniques on pain management associated with total knee arthroplasty.

Methods

All randomised controlled trials published on Cochrane Library, PubMed, and EMBASE, Scopus, and PsychINFO were systematically searched. The PEDro scale was used to assess the quality of studies. A total of 8 articles, 2 of which were split by subgroup analyses to create 10 studies, with 828 adults were selected for inclusion in the analysis. The mean differe

SUBMITTER: Jabur A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10236883 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature