Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric applications of plexus and conduction nerve blocks have increased considerably in recent years, and they have indications in virtually all aspects of surgical and procedural pain, including outpatient surgery, whether the techniques are used in conscious patients or in combination with general anesthesia. Lower extremity nerve blocks remain underutilized despite their many advantages in terms of efficacy, safety and ease with which they can be performed with the help of a nerve stimulator. A major improvement in recent years consisted in the development of techniques allowing catheter placement for continuous infusion of local anesthetics.