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Thumbs Up on Safety Scalpels - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - May 2019

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mation, says Dr. Cohen. "Otherwise, if you burn nerves that contain normal senso- ry information, your leg would be numb, and you might be weak if there were motor fibers burned," he says. When you burn nerves that go to the joints in your back, you numb the nerves first because you want to see if the patient gets pain relief. They're called prognostic — some- times diagnostic — blocks, says Dr. Cohen. "It's like a dry run. If the pain is coming from the joints in your back, you'll feel better when we numb these nerves," he says. "If you look at placebo-controlled tri- CONSISTENT FLOW RATE TOO FAST TOO SOON ACTion™ Block Pain Pump REQUEST YOUR SAMPLES NOW THROUGH PAJUNK! Toll Free: +1.888.972.5865 info@pajunk-usa.com easycathusa.com/Ambu-ACTion IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY WITH A MORE CONSISTENT FLOW RATE By using the AMBU® ACTion™ Block Pump in combination with the PAJUNK® E-Cath/E-Cath Plus you can improve clinical outcomes while minimizing inventory needs and increasing cost savings. Simplify and speed-up your catheter placement while reducing leakage and migration Improve patient safety with a more consistent fl ow rate Fill and Refi ll the ACTion pump to the exact volumes needed *World Journal of Anesthesiology m2014 March 27; 311); n9-123; ISSN 221806182 lonline); Baishideng Publishing Group Co. Note: Pumps were set to a nominal fl ow rate of 12 ml/hr. E-Cath & E-Cath Plus

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