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

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Eric Albrecht MD

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK

    Dorothea Morfey MBBS

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Richard Brull MD, FRCPC

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Albrecht, E., Morfey, D. & Brull, R. Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Single-injection or Continuous Femoral Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty?. Clin Orthop Relat Res 472, 2901–2902 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-014-3755-y

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