Continuous Postoperative Infusion of a Regional Anesthetic after an Amputation of the Lower Extremity. A Randomized Clinical Trial*†
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 78 (10), 1501-5
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199610000-00007
Abstract
We performed a prospective, randomized clinical trial to determine whether continuous infusion of bupivacaine hydrochloride decreased the use of narcotics for the relief of pain after an amputation. Twenty-one patients who were to have an amputation of the lower extremity because of ischemicThis publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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