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Basics of Anesthesia- Nerve Injuries due to Positioning

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Femoral Nerve Injury   -Damaged by hip Flexion greater than 90 -causes damage by compression or venous/arterial occlussion  
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Obturator Nerve Inury   -Occurs with excessive hip flexion or forceps delivery -Stretch Injury -Result: weakness/paralysis of adduction of thigh  
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Which nerves are at risk of compression as the wind round the fibula and medial tibital condyle?   -Saphenous -Peroneal  
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Sciatic Nerve Inury   -caused by stretching in improper lithotomy position  
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Saphenous Nerve Injury   -compression injury as the calf rests on stirrups  
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Flexion of the hip joints may damage which nerves?   Femoral nerve (compression) - Sciatic and Obturator (stretch)  
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Common Peroneal Nerve Injury   -susceptible because it is close to the fibular head -Inury= foot drop, inability to dorsal flexion of toes, inability to every, loss of doral senstaion  
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Posterior Tibial Nerve Injuryt   -compressed by stirrups (pressure on posterior aspect of knee) -Inury: weak plantar flexion, posterior calf and sensory defiency of lateral foot  
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