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Successful management of above knee amputation with combined and modified nerve blocks

Author(s) -

S Parthasarathy,

TSenthil Kumar,

K Indu

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

anesthesia essays and researches

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0259-1162

DOI - 10.4103/0259-1162.183161

Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , cellulitis , nerve block , femoral nerve , anesthesia , surgery , block (permutation group theory) , sciatic nerve , femoral nerve block , mathematics , geometry

We report a successful management of a case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus positive right lower limb cellulitis for above knee amputation under combined nerve blocks. The ongoing sepsis, thrombocytopenia, and severe respiratory infection with wheeze made us avoid both neuraxial block and general anesthesia and plan for a nerve block. We instituted a modified high inguinal femoral block along with sciatic and lateral femoral nerve blocks separately to successfully conduct the case. We decided to report as there were not as many cases as ours in the literature.

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