Impact of a Preemptive Multimodal Analgesia plus Femoral Nerve Blockade Protocol on Rehabilitation, Hospital Length of Stay, and Postoperative Analgesia after Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Controlled Clinical Pilot Study
Table 2
In-hospital measures.
FNB
PMMA
P value
Mean knee flexion
Day 1 postoperatively (SD)
56.7 (16.8)
51.9 (11.3)
0.31†
Day 2 postoperatively (SD)
63.1 (16.2)
61.1 (12.1)
0.67†
Mean pain levels using VAS
Day 1 postoperatively (SD)
5.0 (1.9)
4.3 (1.7)
0.21†
Day 2 postoperatively (SD)
5.4 (2.4)
4.1 (1.7)
0.08†
Rehabilitation indices
Quadriceps block
Day 0 (%)
10 (53)
0 (0)
<0.001*
Day 1 (%)
13 (68)
0 (0)
<0.001*
Day 2 (%)
4 (22)
0 (0)
0.046*
Missed rehabilitation participation
Day 0 (%)
8 (42)
5 (25)
0.32*
FNB: femoral nerve block, MMA: preemptive multimodal analgesia, SD: standard deviation, and VAS: visual analogue scale. †Analyzed using independent t-test.
*Analyzed using Chi Square test.
