Local infiltration, interscalene block yield similar analgesia after shoulder arthroplasty
Despite higher pain scores at 8 hours postoperatively and increased opioid use, local infiltration analgesia was less costly and yielded similar pain scores at 24 hours after shoulder arthroplasty compared with an interscalene block.In a level-1, prospective randomized trial, Michael Ewing, MD, and colleagues from the University of Missouri compared outcomes between 37 patients who underwent