Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 2021
Association of body pain and chronic disease: evidence from a 7-year population-based study in China.
Evidence is limited on the risk impact of body pain on future chronic disease. The present study aimed to investigate the association between body pain and chronic diseases. ⋯ Body pain is associated with major disease and mortality. Future clinical research should be targeted to whether or not improved pain control can mitigate this population-level disease burden.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 2021
Cadaveric investigation of the minimum effective volume for ultrasound-guided suprainguinal fascia iliaca block.
This cadaveric dose-finding study investigated the minimum effective volume of dye in 90% of cases (MEV90), required to stain the femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous and obturator nerves for ultrasound-guided suprainguinal fascia iliaca block (SIFIB). ⋯ For ultrasound-guided SIFIB, the MEV90 of dye required to stain the femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous and obturator nerves is 62.5 mL. Further studies are required to correlate this finding with the MEV90 of local anesthetic in human subjects.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 2021
Cadaveric study investigating the phrenic-sparing volume for anterior suprascapular nerve block.
This cadaveric study investigated the maximum effective volume of dye in 90% of cases (MEV90), required to stain the suprascapular nerve while sparing the phrenic nerve during the performance of an anterior suprascapular nerve block. ⋯ For ultrasound-guided anterior suprascapular nerve block, the MEV90 of dye required to spare the phrenic nerve is 4.2 mL. Further studies are required to correlate this finding with the MEV90 of local anesthetic in live subjects.