Local and Regional Analgesia

Erythropoietin protects against local anesthetic myotoxicity during continuous regional analgesia.

BACKGROUND Local anesthetics offer the benefits of extended analgesia with greater patient satisfaction and faster rehabilitation compared with intravenous morphine. These benefits, however, can be offset by adverse iatrogenic muscle pain caused by bupivacaine. Here, the authors describe the mechanisms of local anesthetic-induced myotoxicity and a partial protective effect of recombinant human ...

Analgesia and anesthesia during IUD insertion: local anesthetics

Background: Intrauterine Device (IUD) is an effective and long term method of contraception that can be used without continued effort by the user to prevent pregnancy perfectly. Pain during IUD insertion is one of the obstacles to properly using the device. Thus, using different methods of analgesia and anesthesia to alleviate this pain has been studied by many researchers. This review article ...

Regional/perfusion analgesia.

Regional/perfusion analgesia involves the injection of a local analgesic solution into the vein of a limb which has been made ischemic by a tourniquet. Such analgesia is most useful for operations on the arms but can be used in the leg. The following is a review of this method of analgesia, including a general review of local analgesic drug effects and methods of treatment. At our hospital,* we...

Regional block analgesia.

Local analgesia

Since the mid-1970s, the use of local anaesthesia by podiatrists has been a routine part of practice and has facilitated the application of many techniques that have been developed to the benefit of the patient. The methods employed range from local infiltration of the anaesthetic agent at the site of the lesion to nerve trunk block techniques that prevent sensory stimulus from the area of the ...