Nerve Block For Knee Surgery. Typically doctors use these for providing short term pain relief or as an anesthetic during surgery. A femoral nerve block is a type of anesthesia most often used for pain management after total knee and hip replacement surgery.
Proper placement of the femoral nerve block is key. For example nerve blocks for hand surgery usually last for 6 8 hours but a nerve block for pain after total knee replacement can last for 12 24 hours. This is important because often knee pain sets off a health crisis that can steadily worsen.
A genicular nerve block for knee pain can help target the area of your pain.
This means that a specific nerve or group of them is numbed in order to anesthetize a particular relatively large area of the body. We identified all plexus or major nerve blocks performed on the day of surgery using ohip codes g260 or g060 which identify lumbar plexus or 3 in 1 blocks and femoral nerve or fascia iliaca blocks respectively. This is important because often knee pain sets off a health crisis that can steadily worsen. It can be administered on its own to target a specific area of the thigh and knee or combined with a sciatic nerve block to achieve complete numbness of the lower leg.
