Peripheral nerve block anesthesia/analgesia for patients undergoing primary hip and knee arthroplasty: recommendations from the International Consensus on Anesthesia-Related Outcomes after Surgery (ICAROS) group based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of current literature.
Stavros G MemtsoudisCrispiana CozowiczJanis BekerisDace BekereJiabin LiuEllen M SoffinEdward R MarianoRebecca L JohnsonGeorge GoMary J HargettBradley H LeePamela WendelMark BrouilletteSang Jo KimLila BaakliniDouglas S WetmoreGenewoo HongRie GotoBridget JivanelliVassilis AthanassoglouEriphili ArgyraMichael John BarringtonAlain BorgeatJose De AndresKariem El-BoghdadlyNabil M ElkassabanyPhilippe GautierPeter GernerAlejandro Gonzalez Della ValleEnrique GoytizoloZhenggang GuoRosemary HoggHenrik KehletPaul KesslerSandra KoppPatricia Lavand'hommeAlan MacfarlaneCatherine MacLeanCarlos MantillaDan McIsaacAlexander McLawhornJoseph M NealMichael ParksJavad ParviziPhilip PengLukas PichlerJashvant PoeranLazaros PoultsidesEric S SchwenkBrian D SitesOttokar StundnerEric C SunEugene R ViscusiEffrossyni Gina Votta-VelisChristopher L WuJacques YaDeauNigel E SharrockPublished in: Regional anesthesia and pain medicine (2021)
PNB use is recommended for patients undergoing THA and TKA except when contraindications preclude their use. Furthermore, the alignment of provider skills and practice location resources needs to be ensured. Evidence level: moderate; recommendation: strong.