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Possible Mechanisms of Rebound Pain After Peripheral Nerve Block Subsides and Preventive Therapy Measures

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Peripheral nerve block can enhance the analgesic impact for the duration of and after the operation, which is conducive to the early recuperation of useful workouts and bodily features after the operation, and enhance the relief of the patients. With the development and improvement of nerve block positioning technology, nerve block has grow to be greater and greater specific and safe, and has obtained greater and extra interest in the improvement of anaesthesia. However, rebound pain (RP) can also occur after the nerve block subsides. If RP occurs, it may also limit affected person delight in the much less extreme cases, and in the greater extreme cases, it may additionally have an effect on the patients' postoperative recovery, extend the medical institution stay, and make bigger the burden of clinical care. The pathogenesis of RP is nonetheless unclear, and it is now not nicely understood, and RP is frequently overlooked through clinical personnel in medical work. Preventing and treating RP is of top notch magnitude in enhancing postoperative restoration of sufferers present process peripheral nerve block anaesthesia. At present, there is nevertheless a lack of consensus on the prevention and remedy of RP. In latest years, pupils at domestic and overseas have performed a lot of lookup on RP, put ahead various conjectures on its pathogenesis, and supplied many preventive and healing measures, which include drug intervention, nerve stimulation, psychological intervention, etc., which supply greater theoretical groundwork for medical work. In this paper, we generally evaluation the prevention and therapy of RP from the elements of mechanism and intervention methods, and grant reference for the prevention and remedy of RP after nerve block cessation.

Published in International Journal of Anesthesia and Clinical Medicine (Volume 11, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijacm.20231102.16
Page(s) 82-87
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Peripheral Nerve Block, Rebound Pain, Mechanism, Treatment

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