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Intravenous regional anaesthesia

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Inne nazwy Bier blockIVRA

A way of numbing the forearm and hand for surgery. A tourniquet is inflated on the arm and local anaesthetic is injected into a vein below it, so the drug stays in the limb while the tourniquet is up. Discomfort from the tourniquet can mean that sedation is needed.

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