title: Popliteal Sciatic Nerve Block in a Pregnant Patient in the Last Trimester.
abstract: Although regional anaesthesia is a commonly preferred anaesthesia technique for pregnant patients undergoing non-obstetric surgery, peripheral nerve blocks are relatively less administered. The use of popliteal sciatic nerve block for foot-ankle surgery has been presented for a nulliparous parturient at 32 weeks of gestation scheduled to undergo surgical exploration of an arterial pseudoaneurysm on her right plantar surface due to a penetrating stab injury. Since surgery did not require pneumatic tourniquet, the sciatic nerve was blocked via the popliteal approach with a single shot injection of 30 mL of 0.375% levobupivacaine. The operation and the anaesthesia course were uneventful. In conclusion, popliteal sciatic nerve block was successful and uneventful for a short foot surgery not requiring tourniquet application in a parturient in the last trimester.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: İrfan
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Güngör
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tezer
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gülşah Gülsi
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Polat
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erdinç
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Esen
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Berrin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Günaydın
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaya
keywords: Non-obstetric surgery; anaesthesia; peripheral block; pregnancy