Anaesthesia
-
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Efficacy of a nerve stimulator in regional analgesia; experience in a resident training programme.
Forty interscalene brachial plexus regional blocks and twenty sciatic-femoral lower limb blocks were performed by 1st and 2nd year anaesthesia residents. Nerve trunk location was equally but randomly divided between use of a peripheral nerve stimulator and reliance on paraesthesiae. ⋯ It is concluded that the stimulator is not a useful adjunct for nerve location, except in those patients who are unable to co-operate in eliciting paraesthesia. In such patients the stimulator permits a comparable success rate.