Abstract

l b s r s f u o s NFRAINGUINAL ARTERIAL BYPASS surgery for lowerlimb revascularization has increased in the past years.1 Most ascular surgical patients have advanced atherosclerotic disase and a variety of medical problems complicating the periperative management.2,3 The type of anesthesia influences urgical stress response as well as intraoperative hemodynamic hanges and may have an impact on perioperative complicaions. Lower-limb arterial bypass surgery is usually performed nder general, spinal, or epidural anesthesia. A combined scitic and femoral nerve block is a peripheral regional anesthesia echnique indicated for surgical procedures involving the lower xtremity.4 However, the use of this anesthetic technique for ower-limb revascularization has been rarely reported in the iterature.5 A case series of patients who had infrainguinal rterial bypass surgery under combined sciatic and femoral erve blocks is presented.

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