We did not maintain postoperative epidural analgesia beyond the operative day in all patients and so, although it is possible that
regional analgesia after vascular surgery may have affected sympathetically induced changes in lower extremity graft flow and patency, the data presented here do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about effects of postoperative
regional analgesia.
These findings indicated that the PECS II block could be useful as
regional analgesia for patients undergoing SNB.
Postoperative pain relief after hypospadias repair in pediatric patients:
regional analgesia versus systemic analgesics.
Post-operative analgesia can be achieved by various pharmacological measures including systemic opioids, NSAIDs and
regional analgesia techniques like epidural analgesia.
The logical choices therefore are
regional analgesia techniques and amongst these, thoracic epidural analgesia is considered by many the gold standard for post thoracotomy pain relief but it has its own complications.
Regional analgesia catheter adherence involving the epidural and perineural spaces is well described in the literature, many instances of which are related to catheter looping, kinking or knotting (2).
True (A) or false (B)--click on the correct answer: A review showed that women undergoing CS under
regional analgesia who had local anaesthetic infiltration had a reduced need for postoperative opioids.
Blood lignocaine level following intravenous
regional analgesia. Anaesthesiology 1966;21(1):37-41.
Pacira Pharmaceuticals announced that the FDA has posted briefing materials for the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee meeting that will review the company's supplemental New Drug Application seeking expansion of the current Exparel label for infiltration to include use as a nerve block for
regional analgesia. "We are confident in our robust data package and believe our filing contains all of the information FDA indicated would be required for expansion of the label to include nerve block following our end of review meeting in 2015," said Dave Stack, CEO at Pacira.
Meller, "Continuous postoperative
regional analgesia by nerve sheath block for amputation surgery: a pilot study," Anesthesia & Analgesia, vol.