In the forearm, cutaneous nerve branches are available as graft material. Preoperative counseling and local anesthetic blocks to reproduce the donor defect are particularly useful here.

A nerve block, or neural blockade, is a method of producing anesthesia — a loss of feeling used to prevent or control pain. Nerve blocks can be surgical or nonsurgical. Nonsurgical nerve blocks ...

Compression, short of complete block, may manifest itself by ... of the more obvious entrapment points in the upper extremity. The median nerve is vulnerable to pressure phenomena in its passage ...

No instances of systemic toxicity, hematomas, or nerve injury from the block were noted ... technique for providing anesthesia for upper extremity vascular surgery. The venodilatation observed ...

The researchers analyzed data on nearly 9,600 patients who underwent nerve decompression surgery of the upper extremity (arm, wrist, and hand) between 2009 and 2019, drawn from a large hospital ...

“We believe these positive datasets provide the basis for broadening the EXPAREL label to include both sciatic and femoral nerve blocks ... than 3 million lower extremity procedures annually ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity ... lower extremity. An entrapment point occurs in the course of a nerve where ...