I still remember when a patient woke up from hip surgery in tears—tears of relief. She had been terrified of waking up groggy and overwhelmed by narcotics, a stark contrast to her previous experience.

Nerve blocks have become integral to perioperative analgesia in hip surgery, offering targeted interruption of nociceptive pathways to reduce pain, minimise opioid requirements and enhance early ...

In patients undergoing ambulatory hip arthroscopy, preoperative pericapsular nerve group block vs sham block did not reduce the use of opioids or improve quality of recovery at 24 hours ...

Nerve blocks—local anesthetic injections that block pain signals—are a valuable opioid-sparing technique for controlling pain after surgery. However, some patients experience temporary sharp increases ...

Pendergrast is an anesthesiology resident physician at the University of Michigan. The 1 in 5 Americans suffering from chronic pain may soon lose access to evidence-based interventions that have ...

Patients who underwent lower limb orthopedic surgery and received a single-shot femoral nerve block had an increased risk for falls during the early postoperative period. Recipients of a single-shot ...