Correlation Between Postoperative Pain Intensity and Perioperative Blood Loss After Total Knee Arthroplasty
Panapol Varakornpipat, Sirikarn Tananoo, Akaworn Mahatthanatrakul, Settawut Phanyosri, Sasawat Ratanapises, Artit Laoruengthana, Panagiotis Korovessis · 2025
Read Correlation Between Postoperative Pain Intensity and Perioperative Blood Loss After Total Knee Arthroplasty by Panapol Varakornpipat, Sirikarn Tananoo, Akaworn Mahatthanatrakul, Settawut Phanyosri, Sasawat Ratanapises, Artit Laoruengthana, Panagiotis Korovessis (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12705898.txt.
Description
Panapol Varakornpipat and co-authors wrote this 2025 study on whether pain after knee replacement surgery tracks with blood loss around the operation. Strong pain can fire the body's stress system and raise blood pressure, which might add to bleeding. The team looked back at 405 single knee replacements and grouped patients by their pain scores in the first day.
Average blood loss and hospital stay did not differ clearly across the mild, middle, and severe pain groups. Severe pain did lean toward a higher chance of needing a transfusion, though the link missed firm ground. Starting blood strength was the one clear shield: each step up cut transfusion risk by about three fifths. The severe pain group also suffered the most complications over the next half year.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Panapol Varakornpipat, Sirikarn Tananoo, Akaworn Mahatthanatrakul, Settawut Phanyosri, Sasawat Ratanapises, Artit Laoruengthana, Panagiotis Korovessis |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |