Focused local anesthesia and analgesia for head and neck surgery.
Facility in the use of head and neck regional blocks will provide excellent perioperative analgesia and patient satisfaction. The scope of ambulatory surgical care for head and neck surgery will undoubtedly increase as expertize in these blocks expand in the face of strict criteria for patient selection. Supplemental sedation will be more precise with the intended result of less hangover and nausea and vomiting.
Department of Anesthesiology,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15228, USA. herlicha@upmc.edu
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D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000379:methods*; D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000379:methods*; D000779:Anesthetics, Local / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006257:Head / Q000294:innervation / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009333:Neck / Q000294:innervation / Q000601:surgery*; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000379:methods; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods
D000779:Anesthetics, Local