Comparing Subsartorial Saphenous Nerve Blocks With and Without Dexamethasone for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients on steroids or requiring stress dose steroids
• •BMI \> 35
• •Patient refusal
• •Allergy to study medications,
• •NRS scores \> 3 with frequent opioid use (including tramadol) prior to surgery-daily for greater than 3 weeks
• •Lower extremity neurological dysfunction
• •Diabetic (NIDDM, insulin-dependent and/or oral hypoglycemic dependent)
• •Not in included age range (under 16 or over 65 years of age)
• •Contraindications to the use of dexamethasone
• •Non-English speaking patients. We will be using the Short Form 8 Health Survey, as well as the OR-SDS questionnaire (these are in English; any translations would have to be separately validated).