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'''Regional analgesia''' blocks passage of [[Pain and nociception|pain]] impulses through a [[nerve]] by depositing an [[analgesic]] [[medication|drug]] close to the nerve trunk, cutting off sensory innervation to the region it supplies. The drug is normally injected at a site where the nerve is unprotected by bone. | '''Regional analgesia''' blocks passage of [[Pain and nociception|pain]] impulses through a [[nerve]] by depositing an [[analgesic]] [[medication|drug]] close to the nerve trunk, cutting off sensory innervation to the region it supplies. The drug is normally injected at a site where the nerve is unprotected by bone. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:36, 20 August 2012
Regional analgesia blocks passage of pain impulses through a nerve by depositing an analgesic drug close to the nerve trunk, cutting off sensory innervation to the region it supplies. The drug is normally injected at a site where the nerve is unprotected by bone.