LKnative - Femoral nerve and femoral triangle blocks

12 – In-plane needle approach and injection of local anaesthetic around the femoral nerve

The advantage of the in-plane approach to block the femoral nerve is that the target nerve and the needle tip and the spread of the injected local anaesthetic can be observed simultaneously

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Femoral nerve (F) lateral to the femoral artery (A): the needle (N) is advanced in-plane and local anaesthetic is injected perineurally