Regional anesthesia and analgesia technics are widely and securely used during orthopedic surgery. Interfascial plane blocks are the latest used ones for analgesia. There are studies in literature indicating that bupivacaine cause myotoxicity. We aimed to examine plasma CPK(creatine phosphokinase) levels to see whether myotoxicity occurs or not after suprainguinal fascial plane block is applied to patients undergoing knee artroplasty surgery.
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CPK levels
Timeframe: at postoperative 24th hour