Publications by authors named "Kiran Chekka"
Unlabelled: Scalene muscle injections are used to confirm the diagnosis of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome and predict the response of patients to surgery. We performed a retrospective study to determine if relief of pain was related to brachial plexus blockade in these patients.
Methods: We reviewed the charts of 12 patients who had anterior and middle scalene muscle injections, for neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, between April 2009 and September 2010.
Background: Continuous femoral nerve blocks are a part of the multimodal perioperative anesthetic regimen following total knee replacement. Elicitation of a quadriceps muscle contraction (QC) at placement is desirable. We prospectively evaluated the relationship between elicited motor response and threshold current with block success in situ femoral nerve catheters after total knee replacement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We performed an observational volunteer study to document an ultrasound-guided evoked motor response blockade of the deep peroneal nerve.
Methods: Sixteen volunteers had deep peroneal nerve blocks in each foot. After visualization of the artery and the deep peroneal nerve with an ultrasound, the nerve was stimulated with a nerve stimulator.
Objective: A patient with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) did not respond to medications, either singly or in combination, or to intrathecal methylprednisolone but responded to intrathecal alcohol. This evidenced-based case management article evaluates and grades the evidence for the prevention and treatment of PHN.
Methods: A search of published English-language studies on the prevention and treatment of PHN was made.