Nerve block may reduce opioid use in infants undergoing cleft palate surgery

For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...
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Maxillary nerve block may reduce perioperative opioid consumption in pediatric primary clefts

For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...
Healio

Medicare contractors propose coverage restriction of peripheral nerve block procedures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multiple Medicare Administrative Contractors have proposed to restrict coverage for peripheral nerve block ...
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Blind perineural injection for sciatic and femoral nerve block in cats: anatomical study and in vivo application

Local anesthesia is a main component of orthopedic procedures in companion animals. In this context, peripheral nerve blocks are being increasingly used as an alternative to epidural anesthesia for ...
BBC

Ever feel the need to switch off? Your vagus nerve might hold the key

It's the body's superhighway that carries information from your brain to your major organs. You might not have a clue it exists - let alone that you might need to train it. But a quick scroll through ...
STAT

Proposed changes in Medicare coverage threaten access to procedures used to treat pain

Pendergrast is an anesthesiology resident physician at the University of Michigan. The 1 in 5 Americans suffering from chronic pain may soon lose access to evidence-based interventions that have ...
BMJ

Brachial plexus nerve block versus haematoma block for closed reduction of distal radius fracture in adults: The BLOCK Trial – a protocol for a multicentre randomised ...

2 Collaboration for Evidence-based Practice and Research in Anaesthesia (CEPRA), Copenhagen, Denmark Introduction Distal radius fractures account for one-fifth of all fractures in the active elderly ...
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USAISR, MIT team up on AI tool for nerve block anesthetics

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Organ Support and Automation Technologies team is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to ...
Wired

The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Blanco, R., Parras, T., McDonnell, J.G. and Prats-Galino, A. (2013) Serratus Plane Block: A Novel Ultrasound-Guided Thoracic Wall Nerve Block. Anaesthesia, 68, 1107-1113.

ABSTRACT: Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women worldwide, and pain following mastectomy is a major post-surgical complication. This paper highlights the risk factors for chronic pain in ...
The New York Times

Musk’s Starlink Defies Order to Block X in Brazil

The satellite internet service controlled by Elon Musk is refusing to comply with a court order to block his social network, X, regulators said. By Jack Nicas Reporting from Rio de Janeiro Elon Musk ...