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Am J Emerg Med
March 2014
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Regional nerve blocks provide superior analgesia over opioid-based pain management regimens for traumatic injuries such as femur fractures. An ultrasound-guided regional nerve block is placed either as a single-shot injection or via a perineural catheter that is left in place. Although perineural catheters are commonplace in the perioperative setting, their use by emergency physicians (EPs) for emergency pain management in adults has not been previously described.
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