Current methods of perioperative analgesia for arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a literature review

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Abstract

Arthroscopic knee joint surgery is becoming routine in modern orthopedics. Its advantages include minimal invasiveness, lower infection risk, and early rehabilitation. Despite the minimized surgical trauma, the postoperative period after some arthroscopic operations involving cruciate ligament surgery occurs with relatively severe pain syndrome. This warrants the search for novel pain relief methods for patients that meet all modern trends. This review presents data from randomized clinical studies and meta-analyses on the use of various anesthesias in arthroscopic cruciate ligament repair and discusses methods of prolonged postoperative analgesia. The limited number of studies on this issue and lack of systematic recommendations require prospective studies.

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Danil V. Gorelov

Yudin City Clinical Hospital

Author for correspondence.
Email: GorelovD.V@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9554-2942
SPIN-code: 7893-4040

MD, anesthesiologist-resuscitator

Russian Federation, Moscow

Andrey V. Babayants

Yudin City Clinical Hospital; Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology

Email: babayants@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3072-3237
SPIN-code: 2603-9728

MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine), associate professor

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Alexei M. Ovechkin

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: ovechkin_alexei@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3453-8699
SPIN-code: 1277-9220

MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

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