“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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are effective in relieving headache pain, regardless of whether the procedure is done in private practice or at an academic center. Practitioners ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These include conventional therapies such as epidural steroid injections, joint and bursa injections, muscular trigger point injections, and peripheral nerve blocks. For patients with more severe or ...

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 ...