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Abstract
The genicular nerve block (GNB) performed under ultrasound is a common procedure in the perioperative and outpatient setting for the treatment of surgical knee pain and osteoarthritis. It provides motor-sparing analgesia to the knee, making it a potential alternative to other modes of pain management in the emergency department (ED). We present an elderly woman with acute-on-chronic osteoarthritic knee pain which was relieved for a week after a GNB during her ED visit. In patients with knee pain, the ultrasound guided GNB has the potential to provide short-term analgesia for patients with pain refractory to other modes of analgesia. The GNB shows promise as a reliable contribution to a multimodal approach to pain management in the ED setting.
Tweetable abstract
In patients with knee pain, the ultrasound guided genicular nerve block has the potential to provide short-term and medium-term analgesia for patients with pain refractory to other modes of analgesia.
Author contributions
C Kong, IJ Bubic, AJ Medak, G Tan, AJ Medak and J Oswald all contributed to the writing and revision of the manuscript. C Kong and G Tan contributed . AA Tan contributed .
Financial & competing interests disclosure
J Oswald is in the speaker’s bureau at Averitas. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.
Ethical conduct of research
The authors state that they have obtained verbal and written informed consent from the patient for the inclusion of their medical and treatment history within this case report.