Mohammad Salhab
Chapel Allerton Hospital, UK
Title: Local Infiltration Anaesthia (LIA) and novel technique for effective pain relief following elective primary hip and knee replacement-innovative study
Biography
Biography: Mohammad Salhab
Abstract
Background: Acute pain control following elective primary total knee replacements (TKRs) and total hip replacements (THRs) is often poor and is associated with long term chronic pain syndrome. Moderate to severe pain is often reported in the first 48 hours following surgery requiring different pain modality management strategies such as patient controlled analgesia and multimodal drug analgesia. The Local Infiltration Anaesthetic (LIA) technique is currently an established technique to tackle perioperative pain relief; however, studies have reported conflicting evidence so far. In a recent review of 29 studies investigating the use of LIA in TKR, LIA emerged as a safe technique with improved pain control (Gibbs DMR 2012). We have developed the LIA technique to include an intra-articular catheter allowing an infusion of Novel Mixture (NM) to be infused continuously postoperatively.