Ultrasound-guided bilateral continuous sciatic nerve blocks with stimulating catheters for postoperative pain relief after bilateral lower limb amputations

Authors: van Geffen, G. J.¹; Scheuer, M.²; Müller, A.¹; Garderniers, J.³; Gielen, M.¹

Source: Anaesthesia, Volume 61, Number 12, December 2006 , pp. 1204-1207(4)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Summary

The performance of continuous bilateral sciatic nerve blocks under ultrasonographic control using stimulating catheters is described in a 4-year-old child with VACTERL syndrome. Ultrasound showed an abnormal vascular and nerve supply to the lower limbs. The use of ultrasound guidance made successful continuous sciatic nerve blocks possible in a child in whom the traditional method of nerve localisation was unlikely to succeed for anatomical reasons.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04832.x

Affiliations: 1: Anaesthesiologist, Department of Anaesthesiology 2: Resident in Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology 3: Orthopaedic surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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