1Department of Anesthesia, Al-Shaheed Ghazi Al-Hariri Hospital, Baghdad Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq
*Corresponding Author: Isra Hamed Saeed, Department of Anesthesia, Al-Shaheed Ghazi Al-Hariri Hospital, Baghdad Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq, Email: israhamed2010@yahoo.com
Online published on 19 August, 2019.
assessment of femoral nerve block (FNB) and adductor canal block (ACB) for postoperative analgesia of total knee replacement
Forty patients aged from 50 to 68 years old were involved in this study, all the patients received general anesthesia. After completion of surgery and fully awakening from the anesthesia, the patients were randomly divided into two equal groups (20 patients in each group). First group received FNB, and second group received ACB.
There was no significant no age, gender, and BMI between both groups, at 1, 6, 12, and 18 hours the Quadriceps muscle weakness was significantly higher in FNB group.
ACB provides comparable analgesic efficacy and facilitates earlier mobilization by sparing quadriceps strength compared with FNB.
Knee replacement, femoral nerve block, adductor canal block, analgesia, Quadriceps muscle weakness
