Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks performed by emergency practitioners are safe and effective for acute pain management and could form a crucial part of multimodal pain management in the emergency ...
Why the Lag in Adoption of Ultrasonographic Guidance for Nerve Blocks? Lack of Prior Knowledge Hinders Adoption Learning Is a Challenge A Training Option for Private Practitioners? Lack of Prior ...
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, ...
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 ...
Channel Therapeutics announced successful pre-clinical results for its non-opioid pain treatment formulations, outperforming bupivacaine in efficacy and duration. Channel Therapeutics Corporation has ...
Whether it's a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly one in four Americans. UC San Francisco's Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D., neurologist and pain ...
A cardiac nurse who had open heart surgery experienced significantly reduced pain and faster recovery time after her surgeon ...
(WNDU) - One in 400 babies born today will develop a sunken chest. While most of the defects are improved before the baby turns one, some become worse as the child grows. Some have surgery to correct ...
CPT Assistant from Feb. 2004 addresses the issue of electrical stimulation in their vignettes for various nerve blocks. In these procedures, the electrical stimulation is included with the CPT for the ...
It is not common for pain to get worse after a medial branch block (MBB). However, this could happen if there are complications during the procedure that result in nerve damage. It is also possible ...
A team of researchers may have found an effective treatment for one of the more common symptoms of long covid: a chronically changed sense of smell. In a small study, the team found that many patients ...