IPACK Nerve Block for Total Knee Arthroplasty

All patients will receive sedation with midazolam and/or fentanyl titrated to comfort during block procedures. Per our standard practice at Ochsner Medical Center, all patients will have either spinal or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia with mepivacaine 1.5% as the primary anesthetic during the surgery and sedation with propofol titrated to comfort. Also per our standard practice at Ochsner Medical Center, multimodal therapy will include ketamine 0.25mg/kg IV (up to 50mg) intraoperatively, dexamethasone 8mg IV intraoperatively, pregablin 150mg PO preoperatively (adjusted to 75mg for age over 70) followed by 75mg nightly (or home gabapentin dose), acetaminophen 1000mg IV followed by 100mg PO every 6 hours postoperatively, and celecoxib 400mg PO on POD #0 followed by 200mg PO daily.

All patients will receive sedation with midazolam and/or fentanyl titrated to comfort during block procedures. Per our standard practice at Ochsner Medical Center, all patients will have either spinal or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia with mepivacaine 1.5% as the primary anesthetic during the surgery and sedation with propofol titrated to comfort. Also per our standard practice at Ochsner Medical Center, multimodal therapy will include ketamine 0.25mg/kg IV (up to 50mg) intraoperatively, dexamethasone 8mg IV intraoperatively, pregablin 150mg PO preoperatively (adjusted to 75mg for age over 70) followed by 75mg nightly (or home gabapentin dose), acetaminophen 1000mg IV followed by 100mg PO every 6 hours postoperatively, and celecoxib 400mg PO on POD #0 followed by 200mg PO daily.