Hand (New York, N.Y.)
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Hand (New York, N.Y.) · Mar 2011
Is it true that injecting palmar finger skin hurts more than dorsal skin? New level 1 evidence.
Since the first texts on local anesthesia were written in the early 1900s, it has been widely quoted and believed that dorsal finger skin is less sensitive to needlestick pain than volar finger skin. The result is that the most commonly used finger block for local anesthesia is the dorsal two injection technique. ⋯ We provide level 1 evidence that the needlestick of the SIMPLE block which has one needlestick on the volar side of the finger is not more painful than the needlestick of the dorsal finger block.