Editorial Commentary: Adductor Canal Peripheral Nerve Blocks Have Minimal Effect on Pain Control in the Immediate Postoperative Period Among Patients Undergoing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

Abstract

Minimizing opioid dosing in the perioperative period is important to providing safe and effective analgesia for patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The use of peripheral nerve blocks is common, as in multimodal regimens, focused on managing patients' postoperative pain. Recent research suggests that the addition of adductor canal peripheral nerve blocks to local infiltration analgesia injection at the surgical sites in bone-patellar tendon-bone and quadriceps tendon autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction does not affect the dosage of opioid medication administered in the immediate postoperative period.