A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement surgery. The anesthesiologist (a doctor specializing in pain ...

During the 45-minute outpatient procedure, performed under either anesthesia or a local nerve block, Hustedt makes two roughly one-inch incisions on either side of the knee and uses a tiny ...

Total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is usually done using spinal anesthesia along with a nerve block to help reduce pain after surgery. Right after the procedure, you will likely still feel pain ...

and total knee arthroplasty (TKA, 79.1%). For TKAs, a total of 83.5% of surgeons use peripheral nerve blocks, including adductor canal blocks without a catheter (88.2%), interspace between the ...