ALLMedicine™ Nerve Blocks Center

May 19th, 2022 - Overview Background Practitioners in the emergency department frequently encounter patients who have sustained trauma to the lower leg or foot and require anesthesia for repair. The regional sural nerve block allows for rapid anesthetization of th...

May 18th, 2022 - Developing effective strategies to manage perioperative pain remains a focus of cleft care. The present study's purpose was to systematically review perioperative pain control strategies for cleft lip and palate repair. A systematic review and met...

May 18th, 2022 - The proximal long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT) has been recognized as a well-known cause of anterior shoulder pain. Previous studies have identified a heterogeneous distribution of nerve fibers in the tendon, with a higher abundance of fibers ...

May 17th, 2022 - Shoulder pain and loss of function remain a therapeutic challenge in adhesive capsulitis. Suprascapular nerve blocks, a common treatment in adhesive capsulitis, are considered a safe and effective method for the resolution of pain and restoration ...

May 9th, 2022 - Ultrasound techniques and peripheral nerve stimulation have increased the interest in peripheral nerve injections for chronic pain. The knowledge of anatomy and nerve distribution patterns is paramount for optimal use of peripheral nerve blocks in...

Jan 5th, 2022 - Bleeding is a potential complication after neuraxial and peripheral nerve blocks. The risk is increased in patients on antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs. This joint guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and t...

Jun 7th, 2020 - Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. To provide evidence-based guidance in performing diagnostic and therapeutic facet joint in...

Nov 13th, 2018 - Systemic toxicity from local anesthetics can occur in any of the wide range of situations in which these agents are used. This practical guide is created to generate a shared awareness of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of local anestheti...

Sep 8th, 2009 - These guidelines were prepared on behalf of the European Association of Urology (EAU) to help urologists assess the evidence-based management of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and to incorporate the recommendations into their clinical practice. To revi...

Aug 1st, 2009 - Comprehensive, evidence-based guidelines for interventional techniques in the management of chronic spinal pain are described here to provide recommendations for clinicians. To develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for interventional...

May 9th, 2022 - Hip fractures often present to the emergency department and elderly, already fragile, patients are overrepresented. The pain associated with a hip fracture can be severe and have deleterious effects on the patient. Many studies, and a Cochrane rev...

May 4th, 2022 - Regional anesthetic techniques are an integral part to many anesthetic approaches, providing both intraoperative and postoperative anesthesia and analgesia. Regional anesthesia peripheral nerve blocks have been shown to reduce postoperative pain a...

May 4th, 2022 - Fractures of the tibial plateau, while very painful, typically do not receive nerve blocks. This is because of a concern that the numbness from a nerve block would "mask" the typically painful symptoms of compartment syndrome, a condition that can...

Apr 28th, 2022 - Maxillo-mandibular osteotomy is a frequent but painful procedure in maxillo-facial surgery. It mostly requires opioïds use which lead to well known side effects. Regional anesthesia has strongly modified post-surgical rehabilitation of many proced...

Apr 28th, 2022 - Pain is a major problem that has to be dealt with in case of hip fracture, as it presents an obstacle for examination, positioning for receiving neuroaxial anesthesia and postoperative mobility and physiotherapy. With the introduction of ultrasoun...

Dec 10th, 2021 - Ease of access to opioids in the perioperative period is a risk factor for opioid misuse and has been identified as a strong risk factor for heroin use. 1,2 Three-quarters of today’s heroin users were introduced to opioids through prescription medi.

Oct 6th, 2021 - Allyson Bryant, MD Assistant Professor Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health Winston-Salem, NC Changes in Cancer Pain A report by the American Cancer Society in 2012 esti...

Aug 25th, 2021 - A combination of two nerve blocks reduced immediate postsurgery opioid use in total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients by about 35% compared with use of a transmuscular quadratus lumborum block (T-QLB) alone, according to a small study published in B...

May 14th, 2021 - A group of anesthesiology researchers in China have lost their 2020 paper on nerve blocks during lung surgery after finding that the work contained "too many" errors to stand. But after hearing from the top editor of the journal, it's pretty clear...

May 12th, 2021 - Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is one of the most common surgical procedures in the United States. The volume of TKAs is projected to substantially increase over the next 30 years.