conclusions our anesthesia method was sciatic and femoral nerve block under double ultrasonic and nerve stimulator guidance. case presentation in this case report, we present a patient who had tibia and fibula fractures and a symptomatic severe critical aortic stenosis which was diagnosed during a preoperative visit. the patient had exertional dyspnea, palpitations and fainting history, but he ...

case report: we report a 44-year-old man with right femoral nerve palsy following delayed reduction of an anterior dislocation of hip. conclusion: two months after closed reduction, complete clinical recovery of right femoral nerve was achieved and the patient was able to resume his job. introduction: incidence of nerve injury in traumatic hip dislocations is up to 10 %. sciatic nerve is the mo...

introduction: pain control is the most important issue in emergency department management of patients with femoral bone fractures. the present study aimed to compare the procedural features of ultrasonography and nerve stimulator guided femoral nerve block in this regard. method: in this randomized clinical trial, patients with proximal femoral fractures presenting to emergency department were ...

background hip fracture–related pain both before and after surgery is generally reported as severe by most patients. various regional pain control modalities have been described in order to reduce pain in these patients. objectives because of the challenges of lumbar plexus block (lpb) and the fact that the effect of combined femoral nerve block/spinal anesthesia in controlling pain after ortho...

conclusions both methods lia and sfnb provided excellent pain relief and lower morphine consumption following tka. lia is a surgeon-controlled analgesic technique, which can be used to enhance patients’ satisfaction and reduce the pain in the very early postoperative period by surgeon independently. results group i had significantly lower morphine consumption in the first postoperative day (10 ...

a 28-year-old man with neurofibromatosis type 1(nf1) presented with a tumor in the sciatic nerve and femoral nerve. the differential diagnosis of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor was based on clinical, radiological, and histological evidence. the tumor apparently originated in sciatic nerve at the posterior aspect of the left thigh. the lesion was resected totally without neural damage t...

a 25-year-old afghan male was presented to the emergency department with femoral shaft fracture following fall from the height. the patient was subjected to femoral nerve block and general anesthesia. first try for performing nerve block led to vascular puncture. therefore, the needle was removed and re-inserted 1 cm lateral to first puncture site and dex injected slowly with aspiration check a...