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Digital nerve blocks: More gain with less pain
Author(s) -
Scarff Catherine E,
Scarff Christopher W
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2007.00328.x
Subject(s) - medicine , digital nerve , numerical digit , nerve block , block (permutation group theory) , surgical procedures , variety (cybernetics) , surgery , arithmetic , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geometry
SUMMARY Digital nerve blocks are commonly used and effective techniques for achieving anaesthesia of the digit for the purposes of enabling a variety of surgical procedures to be performed. Several techniques have been described including the traditional method, the metacarpal block and the transthecal approach. We favour the traditional technique, and describe a variation of the technique.