Partial meniscectomy and meniscus repair are two of the most common orthopedic surgery
procedures. As these procedures are being increasingly performed in ambulatory surgical
centers, there has been a shift towards providing improved analgesia to ensure timely
discharge, as well as preventing unwanted pain and side effects. As such, it has become
common practice to use an intra-articular injection of local anesthetic to achieve
post-operative pain control. However, these effects are short lived, requiring a multimodal
approach to analgesia. To date, no optimal pain control strategy has been described for
arthroscopic partial meniscectomy or meniscus repair. The purpose of this study is to examine
the outcomes of subcutaneous saphenous nerve block with 0.5% ropivacaine at the medial
femoral epicondyle/adductor hiatus plus portal 0.5% ropivacaine injection vs portal 0.5%
ropivacaine injection alone for patients undergoing arthroscopic partial meniscectomy or
meniscus repair.