Peripheral nerve blocks for paediatric day-stay surgery: one year's experience in a district general hospital.
Two hundred children underwent day-care surgery using peripheral nerve blockade as an adjunct to general anaesthesia during a twelve month period. Total post-operative analgesia was achieved in 86%, simple oral analgesia was needed in 9% and the remaining 5% of patients required systemic opiate administration for pain.
Keohane
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Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast.
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Ardill
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D000293:Adolescent; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D009407:Nerve Block; D009660:Northern Ireland; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010525:Peripheral Nerves