Open AccessPreprocedural ultrasound as an adjunct to blind conventional technique for epidural neuraxial blockade in patients undergoing hip or knee joint replacement surgery: A randomised controlled trial
Author(s) -
Kompal Jain,
Archana Puri,
Rajeev Taneja,
Vikky Jaiswal,
A. Jain
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/ija.ija_327_19
Subject(s) - medicine , ultrasound , surgery , lumbar , american society of anesthesiologists , hip replacement , body mass index , randomized controlled trial , neuraxial blockade , anesthesia , orthopedic surgery , radiology , pathology , spinal anesthesia
The patients undergoing total knee and hip replacement surgeries are mostly obese, more than 50 years of age with osteophytic spine and spine deformities making the blind conventional technique of regional anaesthesia more difficult. The aim of the study was to compare the role of preprocedural ultrasound scan to conventional blind technique in obese patients with osteophytic spines undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgeries in terms of technical difficulty, clinical efficacy, safety and patient comfort.