Toronto—Does it make good clinical and financial sense to send a patient home with a continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB)? Experts at the 2016 International Symposium of Ultrasound for Regional Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Peri-operative Application argued yay and nay.
Philippe Macaire, MD, consultant in anesthesiology and pain management at Rashid Hospital Trauma Center, Dubai Health Authority, in the United Arab Emirates, laid out the rationale for sending patients home with a CPNB