Efficacy and Safety of Adjunct Medications in ED Ultrasound‐Guided Nerve Blocks: A National Ultrasound‐Guided NeRVE (NURVE) Block Registry Study

Ultrasound‐guided nerve blocks (UGNBs) are a core component of multimodal analgesia for acute pain management in emergency departments (EDs). In addition to using standard local anesthetics, adjuncts have been demonstrated to extend the duration of UGNBs. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of dexamethasone and epinephrine as anesthetic adjuncts in UGNBs in the ED.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Academic Emergency Medicine

• Publication date

  2025-08-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/acem.70128PMID 40873157
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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