More and more patients are sent home with continuous nerve blocks in place. These are MUCH safer than the potent opioids and also work MUCH better, but there are certain rules...
Any time the skin is penetrated with a needle, there may be complications. These complications can virtually all be prevented and occur extremeley infrequently.
Not too commonly done anymore, as there are better blocks to do for more distal upper lims surgeries, but there are specific situations where this is the block to do.
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