title: Preventive superficial cervical plexus block for postoperative cervicocephalic pain in neurosurgery.
abstract: Eighty-six (54%) of a series of 160 patients who underwent neurosurgery experienced postoperative cervicocephalic pain. We performed a superficial cervical plexus block (SCPB) immediately after operation in the subsequent 240 patients, in which the incidence of postoperative cervicocephalic pain was reduced to 27% (65 patients), and the intensity of pain was apparently milder. SCPB is a worthwhile procedure to prevent postoperative cervicocephalic pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Niijima
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Malis
mesh_terms: D002572:Cervical Plexus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008012:Lidocaine; D008297:Male; D009407:Nerve Block; D009493:Neurosurgery; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D008012:Lidocaine