Reduced Opioid Use After Surgeon-Administered Genicular Nerve Block for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Adults and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain management after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) may pose a risk of prolonged opioid use.

Questions/purposes

The purposes of this study in ACLR were to investigate the efficacy of a surgeon-administered local-regional block of specific genicular nerves on post-operative analgesia following ACLR and to quantify the outpatient opioid consumption and duration through the complete post-operative course.

Methods

Prospectively, all patients undergoing primary ACLR by a single surgeon were studied over a 10-month period. Exclusion criteria consisted of history of pre-operative opioid use, revision surgery, multi-ligament surgery, allergy to oral opioids, and allergy to local anesthetic. ACLR was performed using autograft or allograft patellar

SUBMITTER: Caldwell GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6384209 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature