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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 103-B, Issue SUPP_2 | Pages 85 - 85
1 Mar 2021
Hussain A Poyser E Mehta H
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Abstract

Introduction

Local anaesthetic injections are regularly used for perioperative pain relief for shoulder arthroscopies. In our practice all shoulder arthroscopies were performed under general aneasthesia supplemented by perioperative subacromial local anaesthetic injections or landmark guided axillary nerve together with suprascapular nerve injections. We compared pain relief achieved with these two methods. We hypothesized that the selective nerve blocks would provide better post operative pain relief as described in literature.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study on two patient groups with 17 patients each. Group one patients received 20mls 50:50 mixture of 1% lignocaine and 0.5% chirocaine injections before and after start of procedure and group two patients received 20 mls of chirocaine around the axillary and suprascapular nerves. VAS scores were collected at 1 and 4 hours and analgesia taken during the first 24 hours was recorded.