Superficial Cervical Plexus Block May Be Safe, Effective for Emergency Medicine Use
Superficial cervical plexus block may be safe and effective for use in emergency medicine.
Superficial cervical plexus block may be safe and effective for use in emergency medicine.
Patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic peripheral neuropathy may have an increased time to first opioid request and reduced time to onset of sensory blockade after an ultrasound-guided popliteal sciatic nerve block compared with patients without neuropathy.
The cervical facet plane block is a procedure in which a needle is inserted onto the extraarticular surface of the facet joints.
Genicular nerve cooled radiofrequency ablation may effectively relieve chronic knee pain associated with osteoarthritis and improve function for up to 6 months.
Intraoperative periarticular local anesthetic infiltration and psoas compartment block may provide comparable analgesia after total hip arthroplasty.
Sciatic nerve block may represent an effective complement to femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty.
A single lumbar sympathetic block may alleviate residual pain, phantom limb pain and perceived disability in patients with post-amputation pain.
Additionally, statistical significance vs placebo was also achieved in total postsurgical opioid consumption through 48 hours (P<0.0001); opioid-free subjects through 48 hours (P<0.01); and time to first opioid rescue through 48 hours (P<0.0001).
Greater occipital nerve block may be an effective option for the acute management of migraine headache.
Investigators sought to determine whether phrenic nerve infiltration and suprascapular nerve block would control acute ipsilateral shoulder pain after thoracotomy.