Six Month Follow-Up of a Patient With a Retained Fascia Iliaca Catheter: A Case Report.

Retained catheters are a rare but known complication of continuous peripheral nerve block. To date there have been several case reports of retained catheters but none that include longer-term follow-up of the patient experience and outcomes. Here, we present the case of a retained fascia iliaca catheter used for analgesia after total hip arthroplasty that fractured during removal and was ultimately never retrieved.

Office-based ureteral stent placement under local anesthesia for obstructing stones is safe and efficacious.

Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of urgent ureteral stent placement under local anesthesia (LA) with those placed under general anesthesia (GA) for obstructing stones.

Materials And Methods: After institutional review board approval, ureteral stents placed from January 2007 to July 2011 at our institution were reviewed. Only primary stent placement for obstructing renal or ureteral calculi was included in the present analysis.