TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks A1 - Monahan, Amanda M. A1 - Ilfeld, Brian M. A2 - Hadzic, Admir PY - 2017 T2 - Hadzic's Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, 2e AB - The maximum duration of a single-injection peripheral nerve block is approximately 8–24 hours.1 Prolonging a peripheral nerve block may be desirable, and can be achieved with a continuous local anesthetic infusion via a perineural catheter. A continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB) requires placement of a perineural catheter in the vicinity of a targeted peripheral nerve for the purpose of subsequently administering local anesthetic. Another term for this practice is perineural local anesthetic infusion. CPNBs are utilized for a wide variety of indications, most typically for anesthesia or analgesia in a peripheral nerve distribution. While not every application of CPNB has been exhaustively validated by randomized trials, continuous blocks have been reported for over 20 anatomic locations. The majority of described applications of CPNBs relate to the treatment of perioperative surgery-related pain. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141738125 ER -