28 September 2021: Clinical Research
Automated Boluses and Delayed-Start Timers Prolong Perineural Local Anesthetic Infusions and Analgesia Following Ankle and Wrist Orthopedic Surgery: A Case-Control Series
John J. Finneran 1ABEF* , Paola Baskin 1BCDE , William T. Kent 2ABE , Eric R. Hentzen 2ADE , Alexandra K. Schwartz 2ADE , Brian M. Ilfeld 1ABCDEFDOI: 10.12659/MSM.933190
Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e933190
Figure 2 Worst, average, and lowest pain scores during the first 3 days following wrist/hand surgery with an infraclavicular brachial plexus catheter and ropivacaine administered by either automated boluses or continuous infusion. Data is expressed as median (horizontal bar), 25th to 75th percentile (box), and 10th to 90th percentile (whiskers), and statistics were not applied owing to the small sample size.