%0 Journal Article
%T Transmuscular Quadratus Lumborum Block Reduces Length of Stay in Patients Receiving Total Hip Arthroplasty
%A Benita Hurd
%A Christopher Ryan Hoffman
%A Oluwafunke Olabisi Ives
%A Usama Iqbal
%J Archive of "Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.5812/aapm.80233
%X Total hip arthroplasty is a common procedure being performed at an increasing rate in the United States. Recovering from this surgery to the extent that one can participate in criteria for discharge relies heavily on effective postoperative analgesia. Many regional anesthetic techniques are deployed in this realm. The recent utilization of quadratus lumborum (QL) blocks with success in other procedures warrants investigation in the hip arthroplasty population
%K Analgesia
%K Analgesics
%K Peripheral Nervous System Agents
%K Anesthesia
%K Non-Narcotic
%K Anesthetics
%K Combined
%K Anesthetics
%K Local
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347734/