Effect of acute versus continuous glycemic control on duration of local anesthetic sciatic nerve block in diabetic rats.

abstract：:Despite a growing awareness about the importance of gender equity and the rising number of women in medicine, women remain persistently underrepresented in pain medicine and anesthesiology. Pain medicine ranks among the bottom quartile of medical specialties in terms of female applicants, female trainees, and proporti...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Doshi TL,Bicket MC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:We describe a new therapeutic modality for sacroiliac joint syndrome that represents an alternative to other treatment modalities. We report on four cases of sacroiliac joint syndrome with severe pain. METHODS:Three patients had undergone operative treatment of the lumbar spine and one patien...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Srejic U,Calvillo O,Kabakibou K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This prospective, randomized, observer-blinded study compared ultrasound guidance and the conventional landmark-based technique for superficial cervical plexus blockade. METHODS:Forty patients were randomly allocated to receive a block of the superficial cervical plexus using ultrasound guidance (n = 20) or...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Tran DQ,Dugani S,Finlayson RJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the uncertainty and limitations in available randomized controlled trials, we performed an analysis of the Medicare claims database to determine whether an association exists between postoperative epidural analgesia and mortality. METHODS:A 5% nationally random sample of Medicare beneficiaries fr...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Wu CL,Hurley RW,Anderson GF,Herbert R,Rowlingson AJ,Fleisher LA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports exist of severe upper back pain of unknown etiology after administration of large volumes into the epidural space. We present a case of an otherwise healthy parturient who developed severe upper back and neck pain after receiving only a small volume of epidural medication. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Dickerson DM,Dai R,Scavone BM,McDade W

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multimodal analgesia protocols have shortened hospitalizations after total joint arthroplasty. It is unclear whether individual components of these protocols are associated with respiratory depression during phase I postanesthesia recovery. OBJECTIVES:To test the hypothesis that sedating analgesics used in ...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Weingarten TN,Jacob AK,Njathi CW,Wilson GA,Sprung J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This report describes the effects of ganglionic local opioid application (GLOA) in patients with chronic headache and persistent idiopathic facial pain. CASE REPORT:We present 2 patients with chronic headaches and 1 patient with persistent idiopathic facial pain who were refractory to medical treatment. Thes...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Harris CL,Hamid B,Rosenquist RW,Schultz-Stubner SH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the epidemics of obesity and diabetes expand, there are more patients with these disorders requiring elective surgery. For surgery on the extremities, peripheral nerve blocks have become a highly favorable anesthetic option when compared with general anesthesia. Peripheral blocks reduce respiratory and cardiac stre...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Williams BA,Murinson BB,Grable BR,Orebaugh SL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks have been shown to reduce postoperative pain after various abdominal surgical procedures in several studies. The motor nerves of the abdominal wall are located in the same plane as the sensory nerves affected by the TAP block. The aim of this study was ...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Petersen M,Elers J,Børglum J,Belhage B,Mortensen J,Maschmann C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:In this study, we examined the consistency, rapidity, and reproducibility of the ABCDE technique for diaphragm identification. Operators using this method place the probe at the Anterior axillary line, watch for Breathing (lung sliding), and then move the probe Caudally to identify the Diaphra...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Khurana J,Gartner SC,Naik L,Tsui BCH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Glomangiomas are rare, vascular tumors consisting of an afferent artery, arteriovenous canal, neuro-reticular elements, collagen, and efferent veins, and are most often located in the soft tissue of the upper extremities. We describe how the use of ultrasound-guided nerve blockade altered the ...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Duggan E,Brull R,Lai J,Abbas S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Posterior lumbar plexus block is a well established anesthetic technique for lower limb surgeries. Both magnetic resonance imaging and clinical prospective studies were performed to verify if a new palpable landmark could be used for lumbar plexus block in pediatric patients. METHODS:Twenty-f...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Mello SS,Saraiva RA,Marques RS,Gasparini JR,Assis CN,Gonçalves MH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to compare the potency of bupivacaine, ropivacaine, and levobupivacaine in an equal dose and concentration for sympathetic block. METHODS:We measured mean arterial pressure, heart rate (HR), and right and left brachial artery blood flow (BABF) before and after cervic...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Hashimoto T,Iwasaki T,Takahashi Y,Kimura Y,Nagao M,Yamaguchi S,Hamaguchi S,Kitajima T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Perioperative systemic lidocaine provides postoperative analgesia, decreases opioid consumption, and facilitates rehabilitation in abdominal surgery. We hypothesized that systemic lidocaine has analgesic effects in women undergoing day-case laparoscopic sterilization. METHODS:Eighty women wer...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Dewinter GB,Teunkens A,Vermeulen K,Al Tmimi L,Van de Velde M,Rex S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:We tested the hypothesis that an opioid-free local anesthetic alone is able to provide comparable analgesia to the opioid supplemented epidural application of local anesthetics using thoracic epidural catheters after major abdominal surgery. METHODS:In a prospective, randomized, and double-bl...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Gottschalk A,Freitag M,Burmeister MA,Becker C,Horn EP,Standl T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subarachnoid blocks are considered routine anesthetic procedures important in the daily practices of most anesthesiologists. However, few data exist regarding modern failure rates or quality-compromising behaviors. METHODS:Sixty adult patients having orthopedic surgery under spinal anesthesia were enrolled ...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Weed J,Finkel K,Beach ML,Granger CB,Gallagher JD,Sites BD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neosaxitoxin (NeoSTX) is a potent site-1 sodium-channel blocker being developed as a local anesthetic. Doses of 100 μg have been used by local infiltration in anesthetized adult humans without adverse effect. We hypothesized that similar doses could cause significant respiratory, neuromuscular, and cardiovas...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Wylie MC,Johnson VM,Carpino E,Mullen K,Hauser K,Nedder A,Kheir JN,Rodriguez-Navarro AJ,Zurakowski D,Berde CB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional opioids are widely used for acute pain management in the postoperative setting. However, a primary concern with conventional opioids is their therapeutic window-the range between doses that produce the desired therapeutic effect (analgesia) and doses that produce unwanted opioid-related adverse events (OR...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Viscusi ER

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Anesthesia and analgesia with paravertebral block are reportedly variable. Existence of an endothoracic fascia has been proposed as one of the possible mechanisms leading to variability. We undertook an electron-microscopy imaging study to investigate the endothoracic fascia in the thoracic pa...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Stopar Pintaric T,Veranic P,Hadzic A,Karmakar M,Cvetko E

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:We wished to determine which long-acting local anesthetic would produce the least pain on injection for treatment of myofascial pain disorders. We compared the pain on intramuscular injection of bupivacaine, ropivacaine, bupivacaine with dexamethasone, ropivacaine with dexamethasone, and needl...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Krishnan SK,Benzon HT,Siddiqui T,Canlas B

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:This prospective, randomized, double-blind study compared the effects of the ultrasound-guided popliteal sciatic nerve block performed by either intraneural or subparaneural approach followed by an electrophysiological evaluation. We hypothesized that intraneural injection provides a faster on...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Cappelleri G,Cedrati VL,Fedele LL,Gemma M,Camici L,Loiero M,Gallazzi MB,Cornaggia G

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Long-acting nociceptive-selective regional anesthesia has remained an elusive clinical goal. We aspired to identify a novel compound that would produce nociceptive-selective regional anesthesia through the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channels. METHODS:We designed and synth...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Zhou C,Tang L,Yin Q,Yang L,Gong D,Kang Y,Cao H,Fan J,Zhang Y,Qian D,Zhang Q,Ke B,Liu J,Zhang W,Yang J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Practitioners mix faster-onset, intermediate-duration local anesthetics (LAs) with slower-onset, long-duration LAs to get fast peripheral nerve block (PNB) onset and long duration. We hypothesized that 1.5% mepivacaine (with epinephrine) (mepivacaine) or 1.5% mepivacaine (with epinephrine) mix...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Laur JJ,Bayman EO,Foldes PJ,Rosenquist RW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence indicates that the use of regional anesthesia offers advantages over general anesthesia, not only in terms of reducing complications but also regarding resource utilization and patient satisfaction. Because of the paucity of data on the nationwide adoption of regional anesthesia te...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Cozowicz C,Poeran J,Zubizarreta N,Mazumdar M,Memtsoudis SG

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a brief overview of earlier work of our group on the peripheral signaling of pain, summarizes more recent studies on the role of opioids in chronic neuropathic pain, and speculates on the future of gene-based therapies as novel strategies to enhance the peripheral modulation of pain. Neurophysiol...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Raja SN

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The perception of high resistance during injection of a local anesthetic during regional anesthesia may indicate intraneural injection. Anesthetists' ability to detect high resistance by "syringe feel" has been questioned in the past. The aim of our study was to investigate the anesthetist's ability to detec...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Theron PS,Mackay Z,Gonzalez JG,Donaldson N,Blanco R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We present an occurrence of a severe but transient neurologic complication after intraneural injection during an ultrasound-guided interscalene block. CASE REPORT:A 36-year-old man underwent ultrasound-guided interscalene nerve blockade before shoulder incision and drainage. On postoperative day 1, he exhibi...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Cohen JM,Gray AT

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a late neurologic complication of intrathecal pump implantation and show the methods used for the diagnosis and successful treatment of transverse myelitis in this setting. CASE REPORT:A 32-year-old man with a chronic abdominal pain syndrome presented with right lower-extremity numbness 2 months ...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Ubogu EE,Lindenberg JR,Werz MA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Robotic and hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomies are often associated with moderate to severe postoperative pain. The aim of the current study was to investigate the analgesic efficacy of the transmuscular quadratus lumborum (TQL) block for patients undergoing robotic or hand-assisted laparoscopic nephre...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Dam M,Hansen C,Poulsen TD,Azawi NH,Laier GH,Wolmarans M,Chan V,Bendtsen TF,Børglum J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Pregabalin is often used as a perioperative analgesic adjunct; some studies show benefit, but others do not. Adverse effects, such as confusion and sedation, have been attributed to perioperative use of pregabalin. We tested the hypothesis that pregabalin, when used as part of a multimodal ana...

journal_title：Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

authors： Yadeau JT,Paroli L,Kahn RL,Jules-Elysee KM,Lasala VR,Liu SS,Lin E,Powell K,Buschiazzo VL,Wukovits B,Roberts MM,Levine DS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00