• Jeremy D Deer, Amod Sawardekar, and Santhanam Suresh.
• Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2016 Dec 1; 29 (6): 691-695.

Purpose Of ReviewThe objective of this review is to provide an overview of recent developments in pediatric regional anesthesia and elucidate outcomes as it relates to patient safety and overall satisfaction.Recent FindingsSince the inception of the Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Network database, the acquisition of data has enabled the pediatric anesthesiologist to extrapolate results and translate them into useful outcomes. Despite the growing trend to provide regional anesthesia in the pediatric population, there continues to be a paucity of available research studies to evaluate outcomes of various regional nerve blocks. This review serves as a conduit to explore the most recent data available, in each regional anesthetic technique, as it relates to outcomes such as analgesia, patient safety and satisfaction.SummaryDespite the limited number of randomized controlled trials evaluating the safety of individual regional anesthetic techniques, the growing body of data, such as presented in the Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Network database, suggests a high degree of safety in performing various regional anesthetic modalities. Modern medicine should continue to embrace the use of regional anesthesia, particularly in the ambulatory setting, to reduce perioperative pain and improve patient outcomes.

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