The efficacy of regional anesthesia for outpatient anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Arthroscopically assisted anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is a common orthopaedic procedure. Until recently, the majority of these procedures have been performed on an impatient basis. This retrospective study evaluated 67 consecutive patients who underwent an arthroscopically assisted, autogenous bone-patellar ligament-bone ACL reconstruction that was supervised by the same surgeon.