Originally published by our sister publication Anesthesiology News
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.—New research suggests that the incidence of transient neurologic symptoms (TNS) following single-dose spinal blockade with lidocaine in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty is significantly lower than historically reported in the literature, likely between 0% and 2%.
The reason for such differences, the authors postulated, may be the advent of perioperative multimodal analgesic regimens in these