“We have instituted a post-operative peripheral nerve block instruction sheet to allow patients that have received a PNB the knowledge of what to expect once they get home,” she says. Below is a ...

A study, published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, examined peripheral nerve block utilization in outpatient surgery settings across the U.S. Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, of UC San Diego, and colleagues ...

In a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 RCTS of peripheral nerve blocks, use of ultrasound guidance was shown to improve the success of PNBs [risk ratio (RR) for block failure 0.41 ...

Peripheral nerve blocks are "an essential part of perioperative multimodal analgesia, providing site-specific, rapid-onset analgesia and attracting increasing attention," according to the authors ...

To compare the effectiveness of peripheral nerve blocks and general anesthesia (GA) in for postoperative pain, Andrew Kalthoff, DO, and colleagues performed a systematic review of 14 randomized ...

There was an increase in use of neuraxial anesthesia and peripheral nerve block analgesia rather than general anesthesia for hip fracture procedures.

2. Mazzeffi MA, Keneally R, Teal C, et al. Racial disparities in the use of peripheral nerve blocks for postoperative analgesia after total mastectomy: a retrospective cohort study.

In this video, Stavros G. Memtsoudis, MD, PhD, MBA, FCCP, discussed the use of peripheral nerve blocks for older patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty.“We found that it was the healthier ...

Gene therapy targeting SARM1 blocks pathological axon degeneration in mice. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2019; jem.20181040 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20181040 ...

B. Braun Launches EZCOVER® Probe Cover Set for Improved Ultrasound Safety in Peripheral Nerve Block Procedures Provided by PR Newswire Apr 14, 2025, 6:27:00 AM ...

In a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 RCTS of peripheral nerve blocks, use of ultrasound guidance was shown to improve the success of PNBs [risk ratio (RR) for block failure 0.41 ...

"Many peripheral neuropathies are caused by breakdown of nerve fibers, but we currently don't have therapies that can directly block this process.