Anesthesia for unilateral lower limb surgery can be performed through general anesthesia, lower limb nerve block, and intralesional anesthesia.
1. General anesthesia: it can provide perfect anesthesia effect, high perioperative safety for patients, and eliminate patients’ fear and anxiety about surgery and anesthesia.
2. Lower extremity nerve block: with the development of science and technology, nerve block is widely used in lower extremity surgery, including lumbar plexus block, sciatic nerve block, femoral nerve block, lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block.
3. Intrathecal anesthesia: Compared with general anesthesia, intrathecal anesthesia helps to reduce blood loss and lower the characteristics of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and continuous epidural block can also be applied to postoperative analgesia.
The specific use of which anesthesia method, need to anesthesiologists and surgeons according to the patient’s condition to choose, the use of a single anesthesia or general anesthesia and non-general anesthesia combined application, should be discussed with the patient, to obtain the patient’s informed consent.