Suprainguinal fascia iliaca compartment block in pediatric-aged patients: An educational focused review by Anuranjan Ghimire, Sidhant Kalsotra, Joseph D. Tobias, Giorgio Veneziano

“…Regional anesthesia has become an integral component of postoperative analgesia and multimodal analgesia during surgery, providing opioid sparing effects and maintaining a beneficial adverse effect profile. …”
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Anxiety in Children Undergoing VCUG: Sedation or No Sedation? by David W. Herd

“…Pharmacological interventions for VCUG focus on sedation as well as analgesia, anxiolysis, and amnesia. Sedation has cost, time, and safety issues. …”
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Pain Management during Ultrasound Guided Transvaginal Oocyte Retrieval – A Narrative Review by Puvithra Thanikachalam, Dilip Kumar Govindan

“…This review focuses on the various modes of anaesthesia and the anaesthetic drugs which can be administered safely to provide effective analgesia in normal and in special conditions such as women with pre-existing comorbidities. …”
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The Role of Interfascial Plane Blocks in Paediatric Regional Anaesthesia: A Narrative Review of Current Perspectives and Updates by Sujana Dontukurthy, Roshanak Mofidi

“…Regional anaesthesia has been increasingly used for analgesia in the perioperative period in paediatric anaesthesia for better pain control and improved patient outcomes. …”
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Perioperative Management of Interscalene Block in Patients with Lung Disease by Eric S. Schwenk, Kishor Gandhi, Eugene R. Viscusi

“…Surgery proceeded uneventfully and postoperative analgesia was excellent. Pulmonary physiology and management of these patients will be discussed. …”
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Response mechanism of heat-sensitive neurons under combined noise stimulation by Yunhai Wang, Guodong Huang, Rui Zhu, Shu Zhou, Yuan Chai

“…Patients with congenital analgesia who lack the ability to sense temperature generally face low survival rates, highlighting a critical need to understand the underlying mechanisms of heat sensation. …”
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Anestesia espinal alta para mastoplastia reductora. Experiencia de tres años by Néstor Parets Correa, Yanet González Calcines

“…Se analizaron las variables: edad, índice de masa corporal, saturación de HBO₂, tensión arterial, frecuencia cardiaca, uso de analgesia preventiva, comportamiento de la  analgesia posoperatoria, estado de satisfacción, presencia de complicaciones, técnica quirúrgica, duración del acto quirúrgico y de la anestesia. …”
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A Comparative Study of 0.25% Levobupivacaine, 0.25% Ropivacaine, and 0.25% Bupivacaine in Paediatric Single Shot Caudal Block by Jagdeep Sharma, Ruchi Gupta, Anita Kumari, Lakshmi Mahajan, Jasveer Singh

“…Haemodynamic parameter monitoring was done. The duration of analgesia and associated complications were studied. …”
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An Audit of Pain Management Following Pediatric Day Surgery at British Columbia Children’s Hospital by Serena Shum, Joanne Lim, Trish Page, Elizabeth Lamb, Jennifer Gow, J Mark Ansermino, Gillian Lauder

“…Although good pain control was commonly achieved after surgery, improvements may be possible by increasing the use of multimodal analgesia, providing standardized written discharge instructions and using surgery-specific pediatric analgesia guidelines.…”
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Expectant Management of Miscarriage in View of NICE Guideline 154 by Junaid Rafi, Haroona Khalil

“…It is a safe option as none of the patients on expectant/medical management needed strong analgesia/antibiotics or blood transfusion.…”
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A Low Dose of Naloxone Added to Ropivacaine Prolongs Femoral Nerve Blockade: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Seung Cheol Lee, Jeong Ho Kim, So Ron Choi, Sang Yoong Park

“…The time elapsed before the first analgesia request was significantly longer in group N (735.5 ± 187.2 min) than that in group C (602.6 ± 210.4 min) (P=0.003). …”
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A comparative study of analgesic effect between ultrasound-guided posterior vis-a-vis lateral transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy... by Rajib Sikder, Sankar Roy, Arunava Biswas, Dipasri Bhattacharya

“…The time of first rescue analgesia requirement was longer in Group P compared to Group L. …”
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NURSES AND PAIN MANAGEMENT IN TERRITORIAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY by Federico Pecetta, Gian Domenico Giusti, Sara Staffaroni, Matteo Ricci

“…Analgesic drugs were administered in 63.6% of patients with NRS ≥ 4, yet the Tuscany region for nurse-staffed ambulances’ analgesia procedure guidelines was not followed in 36.4% of these cases. 79% of the findings with NRS ≥ 7 (severe pain) received analgesic drug treatment. …”
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Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated With Use of Liposomal Bupivacaine Versus Standard of Care for Management of Postsurgical Pain in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surge... by Robert Tracy Ballock, John Seif, Ryan Goodwin, Jennifer H. Lin, Jessica Cirillo

“…ORAEs were not significantly different between groups (adjusted rate ratio, 0.84 [95% CI, 0.65–1.08]; P=0.1791). **Discussion:** LB analgesia was associated with shorter LOS and lower hospital costs compared with non-LB analgesia in pediatric patients undergoing spine surgery. …”
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Dynamics of Acute Postsurgical Pain over the Last Decade: A Bibliometric Analysis by Zhimin Tan, Yanjie Dong, Qian Li

“…The strongest burst occurred for the keyword “combination,” followed by “multimodal analgesia.” The most recent burst occurred for the keywords “regional analgesia,” “opioid use,” “erector spinae plane block,” and “infiltration.” …”
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Caesarean Delivery Complicated by Unintentional Subdural Block and Conversion Disorder by Hesham Elsharkawy, Ashish K. Khanna, Sabri Barsoum

“…Combined spinal epidural (CSE) can provide excellent labor analgesia. Subdural block is also a potential but rare complication of attempted epidural placement during a CSE procedure, which may present as a block that is usually patchy in nature, with a component of sensory and/or motor deficit and a variable duration of action. …”
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Which combination of medical expulsive therapy is more effective for treatment of distal ureteral stone in adults? A systematic review and network meta-analysis by Maryam Taheri, Nasrin Borumandnia, Hamidreza Abdi, Amir H Kashi, Setareh Nourani, Sogand Sheikholeslami, Yasamin Maleki Gilvaei, Pardis Ziaeefar, Abbas Basiri

“…The other benefits of combination MET were lower expulsion time and less analgesia use that needs further studies.…”
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Evidence that flocking behavior is rewarded by singing, flock mates, and mu opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens. by Alyse N Maksimoski, Taviah A Levenson, Changjiu Zhao, Lauren V Riters

“…Regardless of song rate, the presence of flock mates also induced analgesia (a reflection of the reduction of a negative state). …”
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Morphine for the Treatment of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease by Mihir Gupta, Lilian Msambichaka, Samir K. Ballas, Kalpna Gupta

“…The aim of this review is to initiate inquiry to develop strategies that may prevent the inadvertent effect of opioids on organ function in SCD, should it occur, without compromising analgesia.…”
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A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL EXPERIENCE OF TRANSVERSEABDOMINAL PLANE (TAP) BLOCK VERSUS LOCAL ANESTHESIAINFILTRATION AT SURGICAL SITE IN OPEN APPENDICECTOMIES by Rabia Tabassum et al

“… OBJECTIVE: To know the duration of analgesia of right-sided transversus abdominis plane block versus local anaesthetic infiltration around incision site after open appendicectomy. …”
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