A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PAIN CONTROL AND EARLY REHABILITATION AFTER TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: LOCAL WOUND INFILTRATION VERSUS EPIDURAL BUPIVACAINE IN THE IMMEDIATE POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD

A Comparative Study of Pain Control and Early Rehabilitation after Total Knee Replacement: Local Wound Infiltration versus Epidural Bupivacaine in the Immediate Postoperative Period

Aim: To study the efficacy and safety of a periarticular analgesic cocktail injection for early rehabilitation after total knee replacements.Patients and Methods: One hundred patients who are included for TKR were posted for unilateral total knee arthroplasty.This prospective randomized controlled study compared pain relief and functional recovery

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The impact of HCV therapy in a high HIV-HCV prevalence population: A modeling study on people who inject drugs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

BACKGROUND:Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) coinfection is a major global health problem especially among people who inject drugs (PWID), with significant clinical implications.Mathematical models have been used to great effect to shape HIV care, but few have been proposed for HIV/HCV.METHODS:We constructed a determini

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