Articles: nerve-block.
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A technique of continuous sciatic nerve block is described. The method was used to relieve pain from ischaemic gangrene of the foot for 2 days before below-knee amputation and, combined with a continuous inguinal paravascular block, to provide regional anaesthesia both for the surgery and for the first 2 postoperative days.
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Comparative Study
Differential peripheral nerve block by local anesthetics in the cat.
Controversy still surrounds the differential susceptibility of nerve fibers to local anesthetic conduction block. In order to help resolve this controversy, we developed an in vivo model of peripheral nerve blockade in the cat that closely reproduced the clinical state. Using this model, differential rate of nerve blockade of A-alpha, A-delta, and C fibers by 2-chloroprocaine, lidocaine, bupivacaine, and etidocaine was observed and quantitated. ⋯ Etidocaine blocked A-delta fibers first. A-alpha fibers always were blocked last. Of the four local anesthetics tested, 2-chloroprocaine produced the greatest differential rate of block of the nerve fibers, and etidocaine produced the least.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1984
Case Reports[Pourfour Du Petit syndrome following brachial plexus block].
While Horner's syndrome resulted from a paralysis of the cervical sympathetic outflow, its opposite, Pourfour Du Petit's syndrome, was caused by the irritation of these nerves. The case described occurred after brachial plexus block.
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Case Reports
Superior laryngeal nerve block: an aid to intubating the patient with fractured mandible.
Awake nasotracheal intubation in the patient with a fractured mandible may be facilitated by combining bilateral superior laryngeal nerve block with topical application of local anesthetic to the nose, mouth, and trachea. Successful use of this technique is described in two such patients.