Articles: nerve-block.
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The axilla nerve block is versatile and covers injuries from the elbow to the hand, such as wrist fracture reductions, and may be an option to improve patient care, reduce both length of stay and resource allocation.
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 2022
Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Chest Tube Placement in a Spontaneous Pneumothorax.
Chest tube placement is a common procedure in the pediatric emergency department. There is general emergency medicine literature as well as pediatric cardiac surgery literature supporting the use of an ultrasound-guided serratus anterior plane block for regional anesthesia with no prior pediatric emergency medicine studies to our knowledge. This case describes a pediatric patient who required chest tube placement twice for a pneumothorax and describes his preference for the nerve block over the more commonly used procedural sedation.