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Continuous lateral popliteal block with stimulating catheters
Author(s) -
Martínez Navas Á.,
Vázquez Gutierrez T.,
Echevarría Moreno M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00574.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sciatic nerve , catheter , surgery , block (permutation group theory) , nerve block , pain relief , anesthesia , foot (prosody) , geometry , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
Foot surgery often induces severe postoperative pain. Sciatic nerve block is a good alternative for its treatment. We report two cases of continuous lateral popliteal sciatic nerve block using two different stimulating catheters. The lateral approach may offer some advantages. Stimulating catheters may be useful to verify correct catheter tip positioning. This technique seem to be easy to use and provided excellent pain relief.