background: greater occipital never block has been shown to be an effective treatment in patients with cluster or tension type headache but there are very few studies investigating its effect in patients with chronic migraine. this study was to determine the effectiveness of greater occipital never block on headache in patients with chronic migraine. we designed an interventional before-after s...

background in spite of common usage of the inferior alveolar nerve block (ianb), this method has some well-defined restrictions. objectives the purpose of the present study was to compare these two techniques for the surgical removal of impacted lower third molars. patients and methods a total of 44 similarly impacted lower third molars (22 patients with two similar teeth) were selected. in eac...

AANA Journal  June 2017  Vol. 85, No. 3 189 Pain management among patients undergoing orthopedic surgery is often a challenge. Regional anesthesia has become a popular anesthetic technique providing optimal pain control during the intraoperative and postoperative periods. A 61-year-old woman presented for an open reduction and internal fixation of bilateral distal radius fractures. The patien...

Supporting weight on the upper support of crutches is not recommended because it can lead to axillary nerve damage. Despite this warning, improper axillary loadings may still occur because of a lack of arm strength or fatigue. It is generally accepted that improper use of conventional axillary crutches contributes to axillary nerve damage, but surprisingly there are no studies characterizing ax...

conclusions the length of sensory and motor blockade is shorter in chronic opioid abusers. adding 10 µg sufentanil to hyperbaric bupivacaine in opium abusers lengthened the sensory and motor block duration. results the duration of sensory and motor block were significantly less in group c (537.0 ± 40.1 minutes, 479.0 ± 34.8 minutes) and the longest duration of sensory and motor block was observ...

conclusions some new approaches are discussed and their impact on renal colic pain control was compared with traditional therapies. the effectiveness of the new approaches in this review is similar or even better than in traditional treatments. results our study showed that some new treatment approaches, such as the use of lidocaine or nerve blocks, can be used to control the severe and persist...

injecting local anesthetic at the seeking current would be appealing.it would save time and avoid potentially dangerous manipulations of the needle. this study aimed to test the hypotheses that in vertical infraclavicular block, injecting local anesthetic at a seeking current of 0.8 ma would produce the same quality of block as injecting at ≤0.5ma. a total of sixty asa i -iii adult patients sch...