Knee Surgery

If you are having knee surgery, your procedure can be performed under spinal anesthesia, general anesthesia or combined. In these cases, Drs. Bargar and Blumenfeld usually recommend spinal anesthesia alone (with sedation). This is because the patient is in the supine position during the procedure and can ventilate on their own safely. If for some reason there were breathing difficulties, the patient could easily be intubated by the anesthesiologist and the procedure continued with the combination of general and spinal anesthesia.