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Multimodal Pain Management after Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty at the Ranawat Orthopaedic Center

  • Symposium: Advanced Techniques for Rehabilitation after Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
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Abstract

Improvements in pain management techniques in the last decade have had a major impact on the practice of total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA). Although there are a number of treatment options for postoperative pain, a gold standard has not been established. However, there appears to be a shift towards multimodal approaches using regional anesthesia to minimize narcotic consumption and to avoid narcotic-related side effects. Over the last 10 years, we have used intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), femoral nerve block (FNB), and continuous epidural infusions for 24 and 48 hours with and without FNB. Unfortunately, all of these techniques had shortcomings, not the least of which was suboptimal pain control and unwanted side effects. Our practice has currently evolved to using a multimodal protocol that emphasizes local periarticular injections while minimizing the use of parenteral narcotics. Multimodal protocols after THA and TKA have been a substantial advance; they provide better pain control and patient satisfaction, lower overall narcotic consumption, reduce hospital stay, and improve function while minimizing complications. Although no pain protocol is ideal, it is clear that patients should have optimum pain control after TKA and THA for enhanced satisfaction and function.

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    Aditya V. Maheshwari MD, Yossef C. Blum MD, Laghvendu Shekhar MD, Amar S. Ranawat MD & Chitranjan S. Ranawat MD

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No funding was received for this manuscript. However, the research foundation of one or more of the authors (ASR, CSR) has received funding from DePuy Orthopaedics (Warsaw, IN) and Stryker Orthopaedics (Mahwah, NJ). One or more of the authors (ASR, CSR) has received royalties from DePuy Orthopaedics (Warsaw, IN) and Stryker Orthopaedics (Mahwah, NJ). ASR is a consultant for DePuy Orthopaedics (Warsaw, IN) and Stryker Orthopaedics (Mahwah, NJ). CSR is designer/consultant for DePuy Orthopaedics (Warsaw, IN) and Stryker Orthopaedics (Mahwah, NJ).

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Maheshwari, A.V., Blum, Y.C., Shekhar, L. et al. Multimodal Pain Management after Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty at the Ranawat Orthopaedic Center. Clin Orthop Relat Res 467, 1418–1423 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-009-0728-7

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