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There are a variety of approaches to pain relief following TKA. This is partly due to the fact that the pain is very severe and no technique is perfect. Of the currently available technique, epidural analgesia offers the best analgesic modality over an extended period of time. The limitations of epidural analgesia as well as a number of issues necessary to optimally manage this technique were discussed. The limitations of systemic narcotics and other regimens were also discussed.
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Sharrock, N.E. (2002). Postoperative Pain Management. In: Scuderi, G.R., Tria, A.J. (eds) Surgical Techniques in Total Knee Arthroplasty. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21714-2_90
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