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Letter to the Editor: Single-injection or Continuous Femoral Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty?

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Waikato Hospital, Pembroke Street, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Kelly Byrne MBChB, FANZCA

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(RE: Albrecht E, Morfey D, Chan V, Gandhi R, Koshkin A, Chin KJ, Robinson S, Frascarolo P, Brull R. Single-injection or continuous femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2014;472:1384–1393)

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Byrne, K. Letter to the Editor: Single-injection or Continuous Femoral Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty?. Clin Orthop Relat Res 472, 2899–2900 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-014-3753-0

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