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Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

Table 6 Total number of additional anti-emetics usage from POD1 to POD5

From: Single shot adductor canal block combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia can be effective as continuous adductor canal block in reducing opioid consumption and breakthrough pain after total knee arthroplasty

 

No. of anti-emetics usage

IV-PCA (n = 180)

4.54 ± 1.14

C-ACB (n = 173)

4.23 ± 0.73

PCA + sACB (n = 129)

4.19 ± 0.61

p-value

0.001 a

IV-PCA vs. C-ACB

*0.003 b

IV-PCA vs. PCA + sACB

*0.002 b

C-ACB vs. PCA + sACB

1.000 b

  1. †Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation
  2. ‡IV-PCA Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia, C-ACB Continuous adductor canal block, sACB Single-shot adductor canal block, POD Postoperative day
  3. a One-way analysis of variance
  4. b Post-hoc (Bonferroni’s method) analysis
  5. * Statistically significant at p < 0.05
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