What is the Stellate Ganglion block?
Ganglion block is an anesthetic neck injection administered to the front of the neck to treat pain. Injection causes temporary anesthesia of the nerve and can prevent the pain from being felt weeks or months after. To treat pain caused by damage to the nervous system and nervous system disorders and viral diseases such as shingles. This procedure cannot be done for someone who has an infection or someone who has high blood pressure or takes blood thinners.
The ganglion is a nervous intersection where more nerves are connected and then emerged to various places in the body. When a star -shaped ganglion is called a star ganglion. In the throat there is a stellate ganglion bundle of nerves, which feeds a nice nervous system that controls automatic body processes such as heart rate, blood pressure and sweating. Pain caused by dysfunction of sympathetic nerves is called sympathetic nerve pain and is the characterized stability; Sometimes it could grow more or less serious, but the pain is almost always there. For nOther people can change the severity of the pain depending on the climate.
Blocking a star ganglion by administration of local anesthetics can temporarily relieve pain caused by non -functional nerves. Although the injection of the ganglion block block is always administered in front of the neck, it can be used to treat the pain in the head, neck, arm and chest. This is because the star ganglion in the throat feeds nerves in all these other places.
During the star of the star ganglion block, an intravenous line is inserted into the front of the neck, which means that the patient must lie on his back. The procedure may be slightly unpleasant, because the physician's physician must push firmly on the neck to locate the best place to insert the needle. As the needle is inserted correctly, the local anesthetic is injected into an intravenous line, after which the needle is removed. This part of the procedure usually takes longer than 10 minutes.
about another 30 minutes will be PACIENT monitored to evaluate the effect of anesthetics and ensure that it does not suffer any side effects on the anesthetic. The patient could be asked to change positions, depending on where their pain is. For example, if the pain in the arm or chest, the patient may be asked to sit down so that anesthetics can manifest faster.
The stellate ganglion block procedure is fast and relatively simple, but there are certain side effects, risks and complications. Expected side effects include temporary insensitivity of the arm, decreased eyelids and bloodshed. All these effects develop on the side of the body that have received an injection. Risks and complications include seizures from injection anesthesia into blood vessels, collapsed lungs, allergies and temporary insensitivity of other nerves.