Articles: nerve-block.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jan 1978
A new nerve stimulator for monitoring neuromuscular blockade and performing nerve blocks.
A new stimulator is described with characteristics designed to take advantage of recent knowledge of the pharmacology of neuromuscular relaxants and events involved in normal neuromuscular transmission. The stimulator has proven as useful in performance of peripheral nerve blocks as in monitoring neuromuscular blockade.
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Experiences and results of 7212 brachial plexus blocks by the supraclavicular and 404 by the axillary approach are reported. The times of onset and duration of several local anesthetics are compared. The incidence of pneumothorax was 0.42% (30 cases) when the supraclavicular approach was used. Therefore the axillary technique is recommended to avoid this serious complication.