TY - JOUR T1 - Review: femoral nerve block may be the most effective option for pain relief following total knee replacement JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 57 LP - 57 DO - 10.1136/eb-2014-101918 VL - 18 IS - 2 AU - Aaron J Krych AU - Mark W Pagnano Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/18/2/57.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Chan EY, Fransen M, Parker DA, et al. Femoral nerve blocks for acute postoperative pain after knee replacement surgery. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2014;5:CD009941.Utilisation of continuous femoral nerve blockade (FNB) following knee replacement surgery can provide superior pain relief and fewer side effects, compared to traditional patient-controlled opioid analgesia.Further research is needed to compare the effectiveness of FNB to other pain management strategies, such as local anaesthetic infiltration and multimodal oral pain medication.Knee replacement surgery is a painful operation and patient satisfaction cannot be achieved without excellent postoperative analgesia. Traditional postoperative pain management, such as patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), can cause fluctuating pain levels with … ER -