Regional anesthesia for hip surgery in children: A review

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Hip joint diseases are one of the most common and difficult problems in pediatric orthopedics, often requiring surgical treatment. In children, intra- and postoperative analgesia after hip surgery is more conservative and limited to epidural anesthesia, which has known disadvantages and limitations, despite the high quality of pain relief. Peripheral regional blocks in hip surgery are widespread in adults. Ultrasound navigation makes peripheral blockades safer and more effective. This largely influenced the spread of their use in children and contributed to the introduction of new methods of planar blockades into practice. The authors analyzed studies on the efficacy and safety of modern methods of peripheral regional blockade used in children during hip surgery. The literature search was conducted in the eLibrary, PubMed, and Scopus databases. By using keywords, 750 literature sources were found, and 65 sources relevant to the purpose of the study were included in the review. The lumbar plexus block and fascia iliaca block are the most studied regional techniques in children, which are not inferior in analgesic efficacy to lumbar epidural and caudal anesthesia. A new and promising method of regional anesthesia of the hip is the pericapsular nerve group block, which has been well studied in adults. However, none of the peripheral regional techniques used for analgesia after hip surgery, has not proven its advantages. Further clinical studies are needed to investigate peripheral regional anesthesia techniques and determine their efficacy and safety in pediatric hip surgery.

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Veronika S. Novikova

Saint Petersburg State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: veronicova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9257-1382
SPIN-code: 3679-8101
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Oleg V. Kuleshov

Saint Petersburg State University

Email: dkov2001@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5177-2527
SPIN-code: 9876-6486

MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Gleb E. Ulrikh

St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

Email: ostrovgl@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7491-4153
SPIN-code: 7333-9506

MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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