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Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

• Acute postoperative pain is an independent predictor of chronic postsurgical pain following total knee arthroplasty at 6 months: a prospective cohort study (15 February, 2019)

  Asokumar Buvanendran, Craig J Della Valle, Jeffrey S Kroin, Mahendra Shah, Mario Moric, Kenneth J Tuman, Robert J McCarthy
• Face and construct validity of TU-Delft epidural simulator and the value of real-time visualization (22 January, 2019)

  Nenad Zivkovic, Ganapathy van Samkar, Henning Hermanns, Philipp Lirk, Markus W Hollmann, John J van den Dobbelsteen, Dennis J van Gerwen, Markus F Stevens
• Perioperative impact of sleep apnea in a high-volume specialty practice with a strong focus on regional anesthesia: a database analysis (11 January, 2019) Free

  Lukas Pichler, Sarah M Weinstein, Crispiana Cozowicz, Jashvant Poeran, Jiabin Liu, Lazaros A Poultsides, Jawad N Saleh, Stavros G Memtsoudis
• Ultrasound-guided percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation: neuromodulation of the suprascapular nerve and brachial plexus for postoperative analgesia following ambulatory rotator cuff repair. A proof-of-concept study (15 February, 2019)

  Brian M Ilfeld, John J Finneran, Rodney A Gabriel, Engy T Said, Patrick L Nguyen, Wendy B Abramson, Bahareh Khatibi, Jacklynn F Sztain, Matthew W Swisher, Pia Jaeger, Dana C Covey, Matthew J Meunier, Eric R Hentzen, Catherine M Robertson
• Comparison of dexmedetomidine and benzodiazepine for intraoperative sedation in elderly patients: a randomized clinical trial (3 February, 2019)

  João Manoel Silva-Jr, Henrique T Katayama, Fernando A M Nogueira, Tatiane B Moura, Thiago L Alves, Barbara W de Oliveira
• Effects of programmed intermittent thoracic paravertebral bolus of levobupivacaine on the spread of sensory block: a randomized, controlled, double-blind study (22 January, 2019)

  Kumiko Hida, Hiroaki Murata, Taiga Ichinomiya, Haruka Inoue, Shuntaro Sato, Tetsuya Hara
• Systemic dexmedetomidine is not as efficient as perineural dexmedetomidine in prolonging an ulnar nerve block (23 January, 2019)

  Jakob Hessel Andersen, Pia Jaeger, Ulrik Grevstad, Stine Estrup, Anja Geisler, Frederik Vilhelmsen, Jorgen B Dahl, Gunnar Hellmund Laier, Brian M Ilfeld, Ole Mathiesen
• Implications of uninterrupted preoperative transdermal buprenorphine use on postoperative pain management (11 January, 2019)

  Yvette N Martin, Amy C S Pearson, John R Tranchida, Toby N Weingarten, Phillip J Schulte, Juraj Sprung
• Randomized controlled trial of a simplified adductor canal block performed for analgesia following total knee arthroplasty (23 January, 2019)

  Jeffrey D Swenson, Jacob E Pollard, Christopher L Peters, Mike B Anderson, Nathan L Pace
• Can an inflammatory reaction in the meninges, caused by spinal puncture through tattooed skin, evolve into adhesive arachnoiditis? An experimental model in rabbits (11 January, 2019)

  Ronaldo Antonio da Silva, Isabela Leite Ferraz, Ricardo Santos Zuza, Camila Camara, Mariângela Alencar Marques, Vânia Maria de Vasconcelos Machado, Laís Helena Camacho Navarro, Guilherme Antônio Moreira de Barros, Eliana Marisa Ganem
• Intravenous meloxicam for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain: a pooled analysis of safety and opioid-reducing effects (7 February, 2019)

  Eugene R Viscusi, Tong J Gan, Sergio Bergese, Neil Singla, Randall J Mack, Stewart W McCallum, Wei Du, Sue Hobson