Perioperative Pain Control With Celecoxib (Celebrex) in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Summary

We propose that administration perioperative celecoxib is effective to control postoperative VAS pain scores, improve rehabilitation results, and decrease narcotics usage in total knee replacement patients.

Timeline

Start

2006-09

Primary completion

2009-08

Completion

2009-08

Publications

• Huang YM, Wang CM, Wang CT, Lin WP, Horng LC, Jiang CC. Perioperative celecoxib administration for pain management after total knee arthroplasty - a randomized, controlled study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2008 Jun 3;9:77. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-77.

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