Clinical Approach to Chronic Pain Due to Perioperative Nerve Injury

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• Author: sciencedirect.com
• Full Title: Clinical Approach to Chronic Pain Due to Perioperative Nerve Injury
• Category: #articles
• Document Tags: pain
• URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1932227523000228

Highlights

• Mechanisms of peripheral nerve injury can include stretch (retractors and poor positioning), compression (tourniquet, tight belts, and poor positioning), hypoperfusion (vascular injury), direct trauma (complete or partial laceration), and injury during vessel cannulation (eg, blind femoral vessels cannulation). (View Highlight)