Anesthesia and Analgesia Practice Pathway Options for Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Evidence-Based Review by the American and European Societies of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Sandra L Kopp; Jens Børglum; Asokumar Buvanendran; Terese T Horlocker; Brian M Ilfeld; Stavros G Memtsoudis; Joseph M Neal; Narinder Rawal; Jessica T Wegener

doi:10.1097/AAP.0000000000000673

Anesthesia and Analgesia Practice Pathway Options for Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Evidence-Based Review by the American and European Societies of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2017 Nov/Dec;42(6):683-697. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000673.

Authors

Sandra L Kopp¹, Jens Børglum, Asokumar Buvanendran, Terese T Horlocker, Brian M Ilfeld, Stavros G Memtsoudis, Joseph M Neal, Narinder Rawal, Jessica T Wegener

Affiliation

¹ From the *Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; †Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; ‡Department of Anesthesiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Departments of §Anesthesiology and ∥Orthopedics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; **Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, CA; ††Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY; ‡‡Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA; §§Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; and ∥∥Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, University Hospital of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

PMID: 29053504
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000673

Abstract

In 2014, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine in collaboration with the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy convened a group of experts to compare pathways for anesthetic and analgesic management for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty in North America and Europe and to develop a practice pathway. This review is intended to be an analysis of the current literature to assist individuals and institutions in designing a pathway for total knee arthroplasty that is based on existing evidence and expert recommendation and may be customized according to individual settings.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Analgesia / methods*
Anesthesia, Conduction / methods*
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / adverse effects
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / methods*
Europe / epidemiology
Evidence-Based Medicine / methods*
Humans
Nerve Block / methods
Pain Management / methods*
Pain, Postoperative / epidemiology
Pain, Postoperative / prevention & control
Societies, Medical*
United States / epidemiology