Open AccessUltrasound-guided adductor canal block versus femoral nerve block for arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament repair under general anesthesia
Author(s) -
Poonam S Ghodki,
Priyanka Sunil Shalu,
Shalini Sardesai
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_172_17
Subject(s) - medicine , adductor canal , femoral nerve block , femoral nerve , anterior cruciate ligament , nerve block , arthroscopy , surgery , block (permutation group theory) , anesthesia , total knee arthroplasty , geometry , mathematics
Adductor canal block (ACB) is now an established component of multimodal analgesia for knee replacement surgery and is slowly replacing femoral nerve block (FNB). It is also gaining popularity for providing pain relief in knee arthroscopies including anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery (ACLR). Data is lacking from the Indian subcontinent on comparing ACB to the traditional FNB for ACLR. Hence, we conducted the present study to compare ACB and FNB in ACLR under general anesthesia.