Preoperative femoral nerve block reduces rebound pain after knee arthroplasty versus postoperative block
Give Nerve Block Before Surgery To Stop Pain
In an RCT of 186 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, preoperative femoral nerve block with ropivacaine reduced rebound pain inciden…
Getting a pain-numbing shot before knee surgery cuts rebound pain in half, helps patients sleep better, and reduces the need for strong pain…
Brachial plexus block with general anesthesia reduces opioid use and improves recovery in pediatric upper limb surgery
Numbing Nerves Helps Kids Heal Faster
A retrospective PSM cohort study of 100 children undergoing upper limb surgery found that adding nerve stimulator-guided brachial plexus blo…
A specific type of numbing medicine helps young patients bounce back from surgery by calming their body's stress reaction.