Volume : 9, Issue : 6, June - 2020

Peripheral vascular disease severe cardiac dysfunction and unilateral limb blocks: a case report

Dr Ashish Minhas

Abstract :

This case report describes an elderly woman with history of chronic smoking, presented with lower limb pain, later diagnosed with acute limb ischemia and dry gangrene right foot with ejection fractions of 30%, DCM and severe LV dysfunction. The patient was managed with unilateral lower limb sciatic and femoral nerve blocks for guillotine amputation, and later discharged.