Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for preoperative pain management after hip fracture provide improvements over conventional anesthesia including greater pain reduction and fewer adverse events, results ...

Regional anesthesia techniques, such as nerve blocks, are routinely used in humans and can contribute to multimodal approaches to pain management in research animals. Ultrasound guidance is an ...

An overview of multiple studies on pain relief finds that ultrasound-guided nerve block procedures do not significantly relieve pain, according to an Anesthesia & Analgesia report. Although half of ...

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks performed by emergency practitioners are safe and effective for acute pain management and could form a crucial part of multimodal pain management in the emergency ...

Regional anaesthesia is used to enable surgery to be performed on specific parts of the body while the patient remains awake. Ultrasound-guided regional nerve block uses ultrasound to facilitate easy ...

Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks have a higher success rate compared to nerve stimulation or other methods, according to a study conducted by the Department of Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins ...

The spread of close to 80% of injectate to surrounding soft tissues following a nerve block to treat chronic pelvic pain suggests a need to reduce the quantity injected, according to a new study. The ...

Introduction: Femoral neck fracture (FNF) frequently occurs in the elderly. FNF is usually treated surgically, but patients often have comorbidities, which make the surgery complicated and increase ...

2.1.1 Regional nerve block is used for anaesthesia and/or analgesia during or after surgery, and also in the management of chronic pain. It may be used as an adjunct to general anaesthesia. 2.1.2 It ...