In this study, the first to compare music medicine with an intravenous form of sedative medication researchers aimed to measure the efficacy of music in lowering a patient's anxiety prior to conducting a peripheral
nerve block.
Overall, the findings show that music may be offered as an alternative to midazolam before patients receive a regional
nerve block, the study authors suggested in a journal news release.
The lateral femoral cutaneous
nerve block. Dermatol Surg 2000;26:81-83.
Anaesthetic efficacy of 4% articaine mandibular buccal infiltration compared to 2% lignocaine inferior alveolar
nerve block in children with irreversible pulpitis.
Postoperative analgesia with continuous sciatic
nerve block after foot surgery: a prospective, randomized comparison between the popliteal and subgluteal approaches.
Nerve blocks have been shown to be a safe and effective tool in pain relief, decreasing opioid consumption and their related complications, allowing earlier mobilization and functional recovery, shorten hospital stay2 and improved sleep3.
Nerve block and other interventional treatments may be effective in the many cancer patients who have difficulty taking drugs orally.
The anesthetist should be aware of the close proximity between the maxillary nerve and the eye globe in cats and has to be careful to avoid damage to the ocular globe when performing a maxillary
nerve block by either approach.
Key Words: Alprazolam, inferior alveolar
nerve block, irreversible pulpitis, anxious patients.
Notably, single femoral
nerve block (sFNB) has been highlighted as a postoperative analgesic method.5,6
The positive hooking maneuver test is usually followed by a
nerve block. Relief of pain on the
nerve block after positive hooking maneuver is highly suggestive of slipping rib syndrome.