INTRODUCTION Although more than 30 million patients in the United States undergo ambulatory surgery each year, it remains unclear what percentage of these patients receive a perioperative nerve block. We reviewed data from the 2006 National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery to determine the demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, and clinical factors associated with the likelihood of nerve block pla...

Chronic block of nerve-muscle activity is known to induce sprouting of motor nerve terminals and to enhance transmitter release at the neuromuscular junction. Increased transmitter release has been assumed to be a physiological correlate of disuse-induced sprouting of nerve terminals. We examined this assumption in the rat extensor digitorum longus muscle following chronic conduction block of t...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Perineural analgesics are used for lameness diagnosis but the duration of effect, knowledge of which would provide valuable information when performing subsequent blocks, is unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the duration of a palmar digital nerve block using force plate measurements. METHODS Ten horses diagnosed with unilateral navicular syndrome were trotted at ra...

Objective: Uncontrolled postoperative pain and nausea and vomiting are the most common causes for hospital admission following ambulatory anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Therefore, finding techniques that provide excellent postoperative pain control is of critical importance. This retrospective study compared patients who received preoperative femoral nerve blockade to those wh...

In association with the growing interests in pain management, several modalities to control postoperative pain have been proposed and examined for the efficacy in the recent studies. Various modes of peripheral nerve block have been proposed and the effectiveness and safety have been examined for each of those techniques. We have described our clinical experiences, showing that continuous femor...

conclusions some children with cap have acnes. in all children with acnes, we recommended local nerve blocks. if the local block in 3 times is not helping, neurectomy of the peripheral nerve is method of choice. results in 12 pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain, we diagnosed acnes. each presented with abdominal pain and a positive carnett sign. local nerve blocks using anesthetic and...

PURPOSE Controversy exists over the pain during prostate biopsy. Periprostatic nerve block is a commonly used anaesthetic technique during transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsy. The recent trend toward increasing the number of cores has become popular. This practice further increases the need for a proper anaesthetic application. We compared the efficacy of periprostatic nerve bl...