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Archive > October, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 10

The Path to Regional Success

How we learned to use regional nerve blocks to manage post-op pain and keep our patients - and surgeons - smiling after surgery.

Catherine Rice, MD

When a patient wakes up after two to three hours of surgery on his shoulder, you expect to hear some complaint of pain or discomfort in the recovery room. But at our two-OR multi-specialty surgery center in Southern California, you're just as likely to hear that patient remark, "I don't even feel like I've had surgery!"

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