Fascia Iliaca Block for Anesthesia in Lower Limb Thromboembolectomy

This study was conducted to demonstrate the success incidence (to evaluate the efficacy) of preoperative 0.25% bupivacaine FIB as a sole anesthetic technique in thromboembolectomy of unilateral chronic lower limb ischemia compared to neuraxial anesthesiaas a primary goal. Intraoperative hemodynamics variation, postoperative pain score, total analgesic rescue requests and the total amount of systemic rescue analgesia used in the first postoperative day in addition to any detected postoperative complications were secondary goals. The hypothesis is that; FIB will provide adequate anesthesia as neuraxial anesthesia.