Articles: nerve-block.
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The perioperative pain management - instead of the efforts, guidelines and protocols - is underestimated and undertreated. Even in the case of general anaesthesia, the nervous system is overwhelmed by copious quantities of nociceptive stimuli at surgical incision. Stress and pain-modulation processes are triggered which can have significant influence on the outcome. ⋯ Nowadays, it is an unequivocal evidence that the increasingly used peripheral nerve blockades prior to incision are efficient tools in the prevention of chronic postoperative pain. Ultrasound guidance is suitable not only for surgical anaesthesia, but for postoperative pain management as well, however, besides economic factors, the main goal of this technique is to match the best interest of the patients. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(15): 573-584.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Postoperative analgesia after total abdominal hysterectomy: Is the transversus abdominis plane block effective?
Analgesic protocol is needed following gynecologic surgery to ensure early mobilization, decrease the duration in the post-anesthetic care unit and hospitalization, and provide patient comfort. Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks are used in the treatment of acute postoperative pain after lower abdominal surgery. TAP block may be a better choice of postoperative pain control. In the present study, the efficacy of ultrasound-guided TAP block on pain control and postoperative opioid consumption was evaluated in patients undergoing a total abdominal hysterectomy. ⋯ TAP block can effectively treat postoperative pain as part of multimodal analgesia in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy.
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Pain after limb amputation is frequently challenging to adequately treat with local anesthetic-based regional anesthesia techniques due to its relatively long duration. Furthermore, uncontrolled pain in the immediate postoperative period is associated with persistent postsurgical pain, and frequently phantom limb pain. ⋯ All reported profound analgesia in the postoperative period without persistent postsurgical residual limb or phantom pain in the following months. No adverse events associated with the cryoneurolysis procedure occurred.
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The interfascial thoracic wall blockades Pecs I and Pecs II are increasingly applied in breast and axillary surgery. Despite the clear anatomical demarcations depicted at their introduction, the clinical outcome is more variable than would be expected based upon the described anatomy. In order to elucidate factors that explain this variability, we evaluated the spread of each injection-medial Pecs I, lateral Pecs I, the deep injection of the Pecs II-separately. ⋯ The pectoral branch of the thoracoacromial artery can serve as the landmark to differentiate the needle position of the medial and lateral Pecs I block. Clin. Anat. 32:421-429, 2019. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.