Review Article

A Systematic Review of Postoperative Pain Outcome Measurements Utilised in Regional Anesthesia Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 3

Summary of regional techniques investigated in included studies.

Blocks studiedNumber of studiesStudies

Supraclavicular2Subramanyam et al. [28]; Bharti et al. [14]

Interscalene5Bengisun et al. [39]; Fritsch et al. [21]; Salviz et al. [33]; Stundner et al. [27]; Zhai et al. [22]

Pectoral1Kulhari et al. [36]

Serratus-intercostal1Kim et al. [42]

Fascia iliaca1Diakomi et al. [18]

Femoral6Sato et al. [31]; Wegener et al. [24]; Choi et al. [17]; Thybo et al. [26]; Nagafuchi et al. [34]; Elkassabany et al. [19]

Sciatic4Sato et al. [31]; Wegener et al. [25]; Wegener et al. [24]; Moura et al. [35]

Adductor1Sawhney et al. [32]

Saphenous1Andersen et al. [13]

Cervical plexus2Sindjelic et al. [30]; Karthikeyan et al. [37]

Lumbar plexus2YaDeau et al. [40]; Siddiqui et al. [41]

Thoracic epidural1Wongyingsinn et al. [23]

Spinal1Boussofara et al. [15]

Interscalene catheter3Hamdani et al. [38]; Capdevilla et al. [16]; Fredrickson et al. [20]

Popliteal catheter2Capdevilla et al. [16]; Schoenmakers et al. [29]

Sciatic catheter1Ambrosoli et al. [12]