Choice of Postoperative Pain Management: Peripheral Nerve Block

Continuous peripheral nerve blocks and postoperative pain management.

Effect of triamcinolone added to scalp nerve block for postoperative pain management of Moyamoya disease

Corresponding author: Hee-Soo Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yeongeon-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2072-3087, Fax: 82-2-766-3087, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativ...

Effects of Interscalene Nerve Block for Postoperative Pain Management in Patients after Shoulder Surgery

OBJECTIVES Shoulder surgery can produce severe postoperative pain and movement limitations. Evidence has shown that regional nerve block is an effective management for postoperative shoulder pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the postoperative analgesic effect of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) combined with interscalene nerve block in comparison to PCA alone afte...

Comparison of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Parasternal Block for Postoperative Pain Management after Cardiac Surgery

Background. Parasternal block and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) have been demonstrated to produce effective analgesia and reduce postoperative opioid requirements in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Objectives. To compare the effectiveness of TENS and parasternal block on early postoperative pain after cardiac surgery. Methods. One hundred twenty patients undergoing car...

Peripheral nerve blocks in the management of postoperative pain: challenges and opportunities.

Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are increasingly used as a component of multimodal analgesia and may be administered as a single injection (sPNB) or continuous infusion via a perineural catheter (cPNB). We undertook a qualitative review focusing on sPNB and cPNB with regard to benefits, risks, and opportunities for optimizing patient care. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials have shown...