The researchers’ goal was to determine the efficacy and safety of presurgical epidural analgesia for hip fracture patients undergoing surgical repair.
This systematic review and meta-analysis analyzes whether interventions for patients with shoulder pain can modify quantitative sensory testing parameters.
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.
Prior to surgery, patients had a percutaneous lead inserted in the brachial plexus, femoral, or sciatic nerve using ultrasound guidance.
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.
Many patients with craniofacial pain syndromes such as trigeminal neuralgia, cluster headache, and migraine have an adequate response to pharmacologic therapies.
The authors refute a systematic review and meta-analysis of literature on greater occipital nerve block for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches by Shauly and colleagues and published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, citing extensive limitations and claiming the study ultimately raises more questions than answers.
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.
