Glucocorticoid minimizes local anesthetic infusion requirement through adductor canal block and improves perioperative prosthetic joint range of motion in total knee arthroplasty

Khushboo Baldev; Feng Dai; Cassandra Barrett; Bin Zhou; Misty Shah; Benjamin Howie; Praba Boominathan; Xuechun Zhao; Jinlei Li

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261949

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Glucocorticoid minimizes local anesthetic infusion requirement through adductor canal block and improves perioperative prosthetic joint range of motion in total knee arthroplasty

Khushboo Baldev ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Khushboo Baldev, Feng Dai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6095-2439

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Feng Dai ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Khushboo Baldev, Feng Dai

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Cassandra Barrett,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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Bin Zhou,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Misty Shah,

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Benjamin Howie,

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Praba Boominathan,

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Xuechun Zhao,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Jinlei Li

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jinlei.li@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Glucocorticoid minimizes local anesthetic infusion requirement through adductor canal block and improves perioperative prosthetic joint range of motion in total knee arthroplasty

Khushboo Baldev,
Feng Dai,
Cassandra Barrett,
Bin Zhou,
Misty Shah,
Benjamin Howie,
Praba Boominathan,
Xuechun Zhao,
Jinlei Li

Published: January 26, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261949

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