Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 2013
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyUltrasound guidance reduces the risk of local anesthetic systemic toxicity following peripheral nerve blockade.
The use of ultrasound for peripheral nerve blockade reduces the incidence of systemic local anesthetic toxicity by at least 65%, possibly 80%.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 2013
Editorial CommentObstructive sleep apnea and regional anesthesia/analgesia.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 2013
The impact of analgesic modality on early ambulation following total knee arthroplasty.
Total knee arthroplasty is associated with moderate to severe pain, and effective analgesia is essential to facilitate postoperative recovery. This retrospective cohort study examined the analgesic and rehabilitation outcomes associated with 48-hour continuous femoral nerve block, local infiltration analgesia, or local infiltration analgesia plus adductor canal nerve block. ⋯ Local infiltration analgesia was associated with improved early analgesia and ambulation. The addition of adductor canal nerve block was associated with further improvements in early ambulation and a higher incidence of home discharge.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 2013
ReviewUltrasound-guided interventional procedures in pain medicine: a review of anatomy, sonoanatomy, and procedures. Part IV: hip.
Ultrasound-guided injection in pain medicine is emerging as a popular technique for pain intervention. It can be applied for the intervention procedures in the hip region. The objectives of this review article were to review the relevant anatomy and sonoanatomy of the hip joint and the trochanteric bursae, to describe the techniques for ultrasound-guided injections, and to examine the efficacy and accuracy of such injections.