Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for preoperative pain management after hip fracture provide improvements over conventional anesthesia including greater pain reduction and fewer adverse events, results ...

Ultrasound localization can provide accurate anesthetic placement not made possible by other techniques, according to investigators. Anshuman Singh, MD, presented his group’s findings at the 2010 ...

Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks have a higher success rate compared to nerve stimulation or other methods, according to a study conducted by the Department of Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins ...

Regional anaesthesia is used to enable surgery to be performed on specific parts of the body while the patient remains awake. Ultrasound-guided regional nerve block uses ultrasound to facilitate easy ...

Ultrasound-guided axillary nerve block (ANB) was as effective as fracture hematoma block (FHB) in providing pain control for forearm fracture reduction in emergency departments (EDs), with ANB causing ...

Regional anesthesia techniques, such as nerve blocks, are routinely used in humans and can contribute to multimodal approaches to pain management in research animals. Ultrasound guidance is an ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Prime Hospital, one of the UAE’s leading healthcare service providers, has achieved another milestone by applying various innovative Anesthetic Techniques developed to ...

Introduction: Femoral neck fracture (FNF) frequently occurs in the elderly. FNF is usually treated surgically, but patients often have comorbidities, which make the surgery complicated and increase ...

Regional nerve block is used for anaesthesia and/or analgesia during or after surgery, and also in the management of chronic pain. It may be used as an adjunct to general anaesthesia. It is delivered ...