Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2013
Letter Case ReportsThe Patil mask as an aid for gastrointestinal endoscopy.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2013
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyA randomized comparison between bifurcation and prebifurcation subparaneural popliteal sciatic nerve blocks.
In this prospective, randomized, observer-blinded trial, we compared ultrasound-guided subparaneural popliteal sciatic nerve blocks performed either at or proximal to the neural bifurcation (B). We hypothesized that the total anesthesia-related time (sum of performance and onset times) would be decreased with the prebifurcation (PB) technique. ⋯ When local anesthetic is injected inside the paraneural sheath, B and PB posterior popliteal sciatic nerve blocks result in comparable success and total anesthesia-related times. However, in light of the 95% CIs, we cannot exclude the possibility that an intergroup difference of 19% and 7.83 minutes might have gone undetected for success rate and total time, respectively.