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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 39, 583-586, Copyright © 1992 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
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J Lavoie, R Martin, JP Tetrault, DJ Cote and MJ Colas
Department of Anaesthesia, University of Sherbrooke, P. Que., Canada.
This prospective, randomized, double-blind study was undertaken to evaluate the success rates of axillary brachial plexus block performed with the help of a peripheral nerve stimulator when either one, two or four of the major nerves of the brachial plexus were located. Seventy-five patients undergoing upper limb surgery were randomly allocated to one of the following five groups according to the nerve and number of nerves to be located; G-1: musculo-cutaneous, radial, median and ulnar nerves; G-2: musculo-cutaneous plus one of the other three nerves; G-3: radial nerve; G-4: median nerve; G-5: ulnar nerve. The sensory block was evaluated before surgery and cutaneous anaesthesia was considered to be present when the needles of a Wartenberg Pinwheel were no longer felt in all the dermatomes of the nerves implicated in the surgical site. Otherwise, the block was considered to need completion before surgery. Only one out of the 15 patients in G-1 and G-2 needed completion of their block before surgery whereas seven out of 15 for G-3 and eight out of 15 for G-4 and G-5 needed completion of their block (P less than 0.01). We conclude that when performing an axillary block with the help of a peripheral nerve stimulator, stimulation of the musculo-cutaneous nerve and one other nerve or stimulation of all four major nerves of the brachial plexus gives a higher success rate than stimulation of only one nerve, whether the stimulated nerve is the median, radial or ulnar.
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