regional nerve block anesthesia

The topic regional nerve block anesthesia is discussed in the following articles:

development by Halsted

  • TITLE: William Stewart Halsted (American surgeon)
    By self-experimentation he developed (1885) conduction, or block, anesthesia (the production of insensibility of a part by interrupting the conduction of a sensory nerve leading to that region of the body), brought about by injecting cocaine into nerve trunks. He fell into a drug addiction that required two years to cure. Halsted continued his research at Johns Hopkins, where he developed...

local anesthetics

  • TITLE: anesthetic (medicine)
    SECTION: Local anesthetics the use of certain local anesthetics in throat lozenges to relieve the pain of a sore throat. Local anesthetics may be injected near a main nerve trunk in a limb to produce what is called regional nerve block anesthesia. In this situation, conduction in both motor and sensory fibres is blocked, enabling procedures to be carried out on a limb while the patient remains conscious. A...

use in childbirth

  • TITLE: parturition (biology)
    SECTION: Local anesthesia