An award-winning paper from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York has looked at pain archetypes for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and hoped to answer whether those archetypes are related to patient-specific pre-op factors (demographics, comorbidities) and intra-op factors (surgical and anesthesia technique). Or something else.
The unpublished work, “Classification and stratification of patient pain archetypes following total knee arthroplasty: a machine learning approach,” won the Best of Meeting award at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.
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