A substantial percentage of patients with primary headache disorders are unresponsive to standard pharmacologic therapies, with pain-free response rates of 45% at 15 minutes and 30% at 2 hours, following the use of rescue medications.1 Such findings, along with the range of side effects associated with these agents, highlight the need for novel treatment options…
In a systematic literature review, researchers sought to identify, summarize, and compare data on nonpharmacologic interventions for pain management among patients with dementia and assess their effectiveness.
The Spine Intervention Society sets out to separate myths from facts about the effect of corticosteroid injections on the efficacy of vaccines for COVID-19.
This study assessed the postoperative pain profile of peripheral nerve block anesthesia, which is increasingly popular for acute ankle fracture surgery, as compared to spinal anesthesia.
Increasingly, patients receive liver transplants for other indications than end-stage liver disease and do not have coagulopathy, allowing insertion of an epidural catheter.
Investigators sought to determine the effects of 6-day continuous peripheral nerve block on phantom limb pain as well as physical and emotional dysfunction.
The use of ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in combination with general anesthesia during robotic partial nephrectomy may improve postoperative morphine consumption, the intensity of acute somatic pain, and the incidence of chronic pain.
