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Somatic Nerve Blocks and Tissue Bed Blocks for Regional Anesthesia

On some occasions we may use local anesthetic blocks for anesthetizing the region where a tissue regenerating procedure will occur. This is not always necessary, but if we decide to seek such pre-anesthetization, it may be locally (called a tissue bed block) or upstream on the nerve that innervates the region to have a procedure (somatic nerve block). Because we seek to keep local anesthetic volumes modest, and because we preferably try to avoid motor block (the ability to subsequently use the limb in question), the amount of block that we chose to effect may be partial.