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Pain Pump Surgery. The procedure is performed by an interventional pain specialist and takes three or four hours. Preparing for the Pain Pump Procedure. Once you and your pain specialist have determined a pain pump is a good option for you, your surgery will be scheduled.
Hip or knee replacement surgery involves removing damaged parts of the joint and replacing them with new parts. Pain is expected after recovery from either surgery. It is important to talk to your doctor about what to expect before, during, and after the procedure to optimize your recovery and pain relief.
Jan 26, 2014 · Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most common and successful procedures in orthopaedic surgery. Excellent long-term results are reported both in young adult and elderly patients [ 1 – 3 ]. However, infection remains an important cause of failure, notwithstanding rigorous antibiotic prophylactic protocols.
- Claudio Carlo Castelli, Valerio Gotti, Roberto Ferrari
- 10.1007/s00264-013-2241-6
- 2014
- Int Orthop. 2014 Feb; 38(2): 405-412.
Dec 1, 2016 · Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are increasingly used as a component of multimodal analgesia and may be administered as a single injection (sPNB) or continuous infusion via a perineural catheter (cPNB). We undertook a qualitative review focusing on sPNB and cPNB with regard to benefits, risks, and opportunities for optimizing patient care.
- Girish P Joshi, Kishor Gandhi, Nishant Shah, Jeff Gadsden, Shelby L. Corman
- 2016
Jan 1, 2007 · The combination of intravenous heroin and cocaine (also known as “speedball”) is a well-known strategy to both maximize the cocaine “rush,” while mitigating its “crash” (5) . It may be hypothesized that quetiapine was substituted for heroin in our case (to form a “Q-ball”) because the sedative/anxiolytic effects of quetiapine ...
- Brian M Waters, Kaustubh G Joshi
- 2007
Jul 6, 2016 · The ball holds local anesthetic which runs through a tube and into a patient via a catheter that is placed at the surgical site or in close proximity to nerves.
more months who have undergone orthopedic shoulder surgery, the use of an ON-Q pain pump provided after surgery with hydrocodone as the standard treatment for pain relief, compared to standard pain relief alone, promoted improved patient post-surgical outcomes in terms of two- and eight-week postsurgical pain, two- and eight-week range
