Despite the pain associated with prostate biopsy, many procedures are performed without analgesia. Periprostatic nerve block (PNB) with local anesthesia is a popular technique, but its overall ...

A stellate ganglion block (sympathetic nerve block) is a localized anesthetic injection used to treat pain, circulation problems, or nerve injuries. Learn more.

“The limitation with local anesthetics is that they aren’t very selective for your pain fibers — they block touch sensation as well — and they don’t last very long. In our new paper we showed how our ...

Pauli said expansion of the technique to other surgical procedures is possible. “Dr. Daes now uses the block routinely on gallbladder patients and hiatal hernia patients,” he said.

Lt. Col. Brian Kirkwood, a comprehensive dentist and chief AI officer with the USAISR team, known as CRT3, said the inspiration for the ultrasound nerve block device was a talk by Maj. Gen ...