Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 May 2:rapm-2024-105456. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105456. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38697777 | DOI:10.1136/rapm-2024-105456

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 May 2:rapm-2024-105497. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105497. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Double-jaw surgeries are known to be painful and to require opioids. Maxillary (V2) and mandibular (V3) nerves block could provide adequate pain management with minimal opioid-related side effects. Our main objective was to evaluate...

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Apr 30:rapm-2024-105440. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105440. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: We aimed to determine whether regional anesthesia (RA) has any advantages over general anesthesia (GA) in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) in terms of mortality and postoperative complications.METHODS: This population-based retrospective...

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Apr 27:rapm-2023-105162. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2023-105162. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The USA provides medical services to its military veterans through Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical centers. Passage of recent legislation has increased the number of veterans having VHA-paid orthopedic surgery at non-VHA...

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Apr 24:rapm-2024-105468. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105468. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The dural puncture epidural technique has been shown in some studies to improve the onset and quality of the initiation of labor analgesia compared with the standard epidural technique. However, few studies have investigated whether...

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Apr 19:rapm-2024-105292. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105292. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: When used as the primary anesthetic, nerve blocks are not billed as separate procedures. In this scenario, the anesthesia start (AStart) time should include the block procedural time. We measured how often AStart time was documented...