APPROACHES TO POST-OPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF DURING TOTAL KNEE AND HIP REPLACEMENT

The review describes modern approaches to pain relief in the patients after total knee and hip replacement. It covers the principles of mult i-m odal analgesia, benefits and drawbacks of such ways of pain relief as intravenous analgesia with opioids, spinal and epidural analgesia; it compares different variants of peripheral blocks, and puts some light on a relatively new method of local periarticular infiltration anesthesia. The authors agree that further research is needed to optimize pos t-o perative pain relief after total knee and hip replacement.