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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-04-2015 | Editorial

Three cheers for the pain pump?

Author: Jason L. Dragoo

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 4/2015

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Many of us remember the disastrous consequences of using local anaesthetics in intra-articular pain pumps. Thousands of young athletes, world wide, have had their athletic careers shortened due to pain from pain pump induced chondrolysis, and many subsequently required joint arthroplasty to alleviate their pain. …

Dragoo JL, Korotkova T, Jagadish A (2010) Chondrotoxicity of low pH, epinephrine, and preservatives found in local anesthetics containing epinephrine. Am J Sports Med 38(6):1154–1159CrossRefPubMed

Dragoo JL, Danial CM, Braun HJ, Pouliot MA, Kim HJ (2012) The chondrotoxicity of single-dose corticosteroids. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 20(9):1809–1814CrossRefPubMed

Title: Three cheers for the pain pump?
Author: Jason L. Dragoo
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-015-3520-0

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