Nerve block may reduce opioid use in infants undergoing cleft palate surgery

For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...
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Nerve Blocks May Be Safer Form of Anesthesia

Nerve block anesthesia is gaining popularity as a safer alternative to general anesthesia, according to MedCity News. Nerve blocks, which interrupt and prevent chemical signals of pain from reaching ...
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Nerve Blocks May Be Safer Than General Anesthesia

Nerve blocks, which interrupt and prevent chemical signals of pain from reaching nerves in a specific area, are being successfully performed for arm and leg procedures, as well as breast cancer ...
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Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet Matches Ultrasound-Guided Axillary Block in Carpal Tunnel Release

The wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet technique achieved a 100% rate of success in patients undergoing endoscopic carpal tunnel release compared with a rate of success below 90% with ...
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Are Hidden Costs Hurting You: A Regional Anesthesia Approach to Reduce Complications and Cost at ASCs

ASCs have long relied on general anesthesia with “breathing tube” devices, followed by narcotic-based based pain management in surgery patients. The use of opioids, however, has led many facilities to ...
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USAISR, MIT team up on AI tool for nerve block anesthetics

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Organ Support and Automation Technologies team is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to ...
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Study finds nerve blocks reduce pain in kids with broken legs

A study led by doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina and UMass Chan Medical School found that ultrasound-guided nerve blocks helped kids with broken thigh bones, also known as femurs, ...