Background: Neurophysiological data are lacking in the research of nerve injury during regional anaesthesia. The aim of this pilot study was to establish a large animal model in order to test the hypothesis that needle trauma alone or in combination with intraneural injection would result in measurable nerve injury.
Methods: The experimental set-up was elaborated in four pre-test animals. In the remaining animals (n = 11), 22 sciatic nerves were randomly assigned to one of four groups: needle trauma (n = 5) generated by ultrasound-guided forced needle advancement; intraneural injection of 2.5 ml saline (n = 6); intraneural injection of 5 ml saline (n = 6); extraneural injection of 5 ml saline (n = 5) as control group. Compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitudes as well as latencies were taken as outcome parameter and monitored over 180 min. Sonographic assessments were performed simultaneously.
Results: Following needle trauma and intraneural injection, CMAP amplitudes declined significantly over 180 min (P < 0.001). The control group showed no electrophysiological alterations. At 60 min, decreases in amplitude were significant after needle trauma (P = 0.04) and intraneural injection of 2.5 ml (P = 0.045), and highly significant after injection of 5 ml (P = 0.006) when compared to controls. Sustained nerve swelling was observed after intraneural injection, but not after needle trauma and perineural injection.
Conclusions: Isolated mechanical trauma caused by forced needle advancement alone or in combination with intraneural injection of saline was followed by a significant decline in CMAP amplitudes indicating conduction block due to disruption of myelin or axon loss (pseudo-conduction block).
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