Addition of Liposome Bupivacaine to Bupivacaine HCl Versus Bupivacaine HCl Alone for Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block in Patients Having Major Shoulder Surgery.
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
We examined whether liposome bupivacaine (Exparel) given in the interscalene brachial
plexus block lowers pain in the setting of multimodal postoperative pain management
for major shoulder surgery.
[1
]
From the *Department of Anesthesiology, Ziekenhuis Öost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium; †North
American Institute of Continuing Education (NAICE), New York, NY; ‡Faculty of Medicine
and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium; and §Catholic University
of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.