Table of contents

January 2024 - Volume 49 - 1

Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine: 49 (1)

Editorial

Postdural puncture headache after intentional or unintentional dural punctures: time to think about risk reduction and acknowledge the burden of sequelae (2 November, 2023)
Ruth Landau, Carolyn F Weiniger

Regional anesthesia and acute pain

Improved outcomes for spinal versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery: a retrospective cohort study of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2 May, 2023) Free
Eliana R Weinstein, Richard B Boyer, Robert S White, Roniel Y Weinberg, Jacob M Lurie, Nicolas Salvatierra, Tiffany R Tedore
Insignificant influence of the intertransverse process block for major breast cancer surgery: a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled, clinical trial (11 May, 2023)
Martin Vedel Nielsen, Katrine Tanggaard, Lone Bak Hansen, Christian Kruse Hansen, Mojgan Vazin, Jens Børglum
Comparison of the incidence of intravascular injection using the Tuohy and Quincke needles during ultrasound-guided caudal epidural block: a prospective randomized controlled study (11 May, 2023)
Ji Yeong Kim, Jong Seok Lee, Ji Young Kim, Ji Won Baek, Hye Su Kim, Do-Hyeong Kim
What evidence is needed to inform postoperative opioid consumption guidelines? A cohort study of the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative (29 May, 2023)
Jiyeon Song, Yi Li, Jennifer F Waljee, Vidhya Gunaseelan, Chad M Brummett, Michael J Englesbe, Mark C Bicket

Chronic and interventional pain

Comparison analysis of safety outcomes and the rate of subsequent spinal procedures between interspinous spacer without decompression versus minimally invasive lumbar decompression (29 May, 2023)
Howard L Rosner, Oth Tran, Tina Vajdi, Mary A Vijjeswarapu
Incidence and characteristics of chronic postsurgical pain at 6 months after total mastectomy under pectoserratus and interpectoral plane block combined with general anesthesia: a prospective cohort study (6 June, 2023)
Vincent Garcia, Jennifer Wallet, Nathalie Leroux-Bromberg, Didier Delbrouck, Karine Hannebicque, Fanny Ben Oune, Clémence Léguillette, Marie-Cécile Le Deley, Abesse Ahmeidi

Obstetric analgesia

Ultrasonography versus palpation for spinal anesthesia in obese parturients undergoing cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial (15 May, 2023)
Mohamed Mohamed Tawfik, Mohamed Ahmed Tolba, Olfat Mostafa Ismail, Medhat Mikhail Messeha

Reviews

Role of supplemental regional blocks on postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction after major non-cardiac surgeries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (19 December, 2022)
Narinder P Singh, Jeetinder Kaur Makkar, Anuradha Borle, Preet Mohinder Singh
Local anesthetic dosing and toxicity of pediatric truncal catheters: a narrative review of published practice (9 July, 2023)
Michael Fettiplace, Lana Joudeh, Brittani Bungart, Karen Boretsky

Brief technical report

Infraspinatus-teres minor (ITM) interfascial block: a novel approach for combined suprascapular and axillary nerve block (25 July, 2023)
Shin Hyung Kim, In-Seung Yeo, Jaewon Jang, Hyun Eom Jung, Yong-Min Chun, Hun-Mu Yang

Research report

Performance of the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire short form in outpatient arthroscopic surgery without preoperative peripheral nerve block: a prospective observational cohort study (21 October, 2022)
Daniel Gessner, Ban C H Tsui, Jean-Louis Horn

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