Patients undergoing vascular surgery tend to have significant systemic comorbidities. Vascular surgery itself is also associated with greater cardiac morbidity and overall mortality than other types of noncardiac surgery. Regional anesthesia is amenable as the primary anesthetic technique for vascular surgery or as an adjunct to general anesthesia. When used as the primary anesthetic, regional anesthesia techniques avoid complications associated with general anesthesia in this challenging patient population. In this article, the authors describe regional anesthetic techniques for carotid endarterectomy, arteriovenous fistula creation, lower extremity bypass surgery, and amputation.
Keywords: Brachial plexus block; Carotid endarterectomy; Cervical plexus block; Femoral nerve block; Lumbar plexus; Regional anesthesia; Sciatic nerve block.
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