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Remifentanil for Postoperative Pain Management After Knee Arthroscopy

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February 2024

Remifentanil for Postoperative Pain Management After Knee Arthroscopy

Vol: 306| Issue: 2| Number:50| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:1
Journal Level of Evidence:1

Intra-articular remifentanil on postoperative pain in knee arthroscopic surgery; a double blind randomized clinical trial.

J Orthop Sci . 2023 Sep;28(5):1082-1086.

Contributing Authors:
M Alipour A Sharifian Attar A Akbari S Sheybani AS Ariamanesh Bakhtiari Elham SH Khademi H Makhmalbaf A Farahi

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Synopsis

60 patients undergoing knee arthroscopy were randomized to receive either remifentanil (n=30) or saline control (n=30). The primary outcome of interest included pain at rest on a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 hours. Secondary outcomes of interest included the incidence of rescue analgesia, time to first request for analgesic, rescue analgesia consumption, total meperidine us...

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