Anesthesia and pain medicine
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Anesth Pain Med (Seoul)
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Anesth Pain Med (Seoul) · Oct 2019
Association of preoperative pain in knee and external to knee with postoperative pain outcome after total knee arthroplasty.
Preoperative pain in the symptomatic knee may predict postoperative pain severity in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, the effect of preoperative pain external to the knee on postoperative pain is unclear. This study evaluated postoperative pain outcomes in TKA patients according to the presence of preoperative pain in the knee only or in the knee and external to the knee. ⋯ This study showed that there was an increase of morphine equivalent consumption during POD 0-3 in patients with preoperative knee pain with external to knee pain than in patients with preoperative only knee pain.