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Unsolicited paresthesias with nerve stimulator: case reports of four patients
Michael F Mulroy1, Blake Mitchell
1Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98111, USA. anemfm@vmmc.org
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|August 29, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
Unsolicited paresthesias may occur when a nerve stimulator is used and may indicate valid proximity to the nerve. This phenomenon suggests that nerve stimulator use does not protect against unplanned direct contact with peripheral nerves during performance of a nerve block on an obtunded patient.