Incidence and Etiology of Rare Saphenous Nerve Injury After Knee Surgery with Adductor Canal Block: A Retrospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adductor canal block (ACB) is commonly included in multimodal analgesia regimens for knee surgery. Nonetheless, the incidence, etiology, and procedure-specific risk of saphenous nerve injury after knee surgery with ACB have not been established.

Purpose

We sought to identify the risk of saphenous nerve injury during knee surgery with ACB.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients at a single institution who underwent elective knee surgery with ultrasound-guided ACB between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2018, and had subsequent saphenous nerve injury. The primary outcome was the incidence of saphenous nerve injury within 3 months of surgery, by surgical type and approach. Secondary outcomes included attribution of the most likely etio

SUBMITTER: Like BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11528913 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature