Alan D Kaye, Amber N Edinoff, Justin Y Yan, Aaron J Kaye, Michael A Alvarado, Alex D Pham, Azem A Chami, Rutvij J Shah, Bruce M Dixon, Amineh Shafeinia, Elyse M Cornett, Charles Fox
The treatment of pain, both acute and chronic, has been a focus of medicine for generations. Physicians have tried to develop novel ways to effectively manage pain in surgical and post-surgical settings. One intervention demonstrating efficacy is nerve blocks. Single-injection peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are usually preferred over continuous PNBs, since they are not associated with longer lengths of stay. The challenge of single injection PNBs is their length of duration, which at present is a major limitation...
February 2022: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine