While spinal anesthesia necessitates morphine or other narcotic drugs for post-operative pain, frequently leaving patients too sick or weak to begin rehabilitation, femoral nerve blocks allow enough ...

It occurs when the femoral nerve, which runs from the pelvis down the thigh, is compressed or damaged. This can lead to pain, weakness, or numbness in the front of the thigh and lower leg.

TAKEAWAY: Among the 2742 blocks performed, fascia iliaca or femoral nerve blocks were most common (35.6%), followed by erector spinae plane blocks (14.6%) and forearm nerve blocks (8.8%).

Lt. Col. Brian Kirkwood, a comprehensive dentist and chief AI officer with the USAISR team, known as CRT3, said the inspiration for the ultrasound nerve block device was a talk by Maj. Gen ...

The approval is supported by data from 2 randomized, double-blind, active-controlled phase 3 studies (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05157841 [Study 1], NCT02713178 [Study 2]) that compared the ...