%0 Journal Article
%T Perioperative pain management in fast-track knee arthroplasty
%A Andrea Baldini
%A Irene Miniati
%A Marco Ponti
%J Archive of "Acta Bio Medica : Atenei Parmensis".
%D 2017
%R 10.23750/abm.v88i2-S.6524
%X Fast track surgery for knee arthroplasty is characterized by a perfect perioperative management from patient education to multimodal control of bleeding and excellent pain control. Pain protocols need to be a combination of multimodal pharmacological therapy and Local Infiltration Analgesia with no locoregional analgesia techniques. In Istituto Fiorentino di Cura e Assistenza (IFCA) clinical records 92% of patient have been mobilized the day of surgery achieving a complete autonomy in going to bath£¿room and in walking with the aid of two crutches by 87% on day one and 100% on the second postoperative day; all patients were also able to climb and walk down the. At discharge all patientespresented at least 90¡ã of knee flexion. Only 9% incidence of nausea occurred and only 3% needed to delay physical therapy. (www.actabiomedica.it
%K perioperative pain
%K knee
%K arthroplasty
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179003/