Open AccessDoes the use of periarticular anesthetic cocktail provide adequate pain control following shoulder arthroplasty?
Author(s) -
Elizabeth A. Klag,
Kelechi R. Okoroha,
N Kuhlmann,
Gabriel J Sheena,
Chaoyang Chen,
Stephanie J. Muh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
shoulder and elbow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.506
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1758-5740
pISSN - 1758-5732
DOI - 10.1177/1758573220916916
Subject(s) - medicine , bupivacaine , anesthesia , infiltration (hvac) , arthroplasty , local anesthetic , ropivacaine , nerve block , ketorolac , visual analogue scale , surgery , analgesic , physics , thermodynamics
Interscalene nerve block and liposomal bupivacaine have been found to provide adequate pain control following shoulder arthroplasty. We hypothesized that local infiltration of a periarticular cocktail would provide equivalent pain control compared to interscalene nerve block and liposomal bupivacaine.