“What is a ring block in anesthesia?”
I am a 39 year old male. I want to know what is a ring block in anesthesia?
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Dr. J. Arthur Saus
Anesthesiologist
The most simple and direct answer to this question is that a "ring block" is a subcutaneous injection of a regional anesthetic agent that completely encircles an appendage to the torso, such as a finger, toe, arm, leg, or other body part in such a manner that it creates numbness beyond the area where that "ring" of local anesthesia is injected around that "appendage" or "extremity."
Usually a block around a finger, for hand surgery.
Likely referring to an ankle or wrist block where, essentially, local anesthetic is injected all the way around the wrist or ankle creating a ‘ring’. This makes the hand or foot numb.
A ring block describes the block used to numb up a digit for surgery. Local anesthetic is injected in a circular fashion around the digit to numb the nerve supplying that digit.
A ring block is used to numb a digit (hand or foot). It essentially means injecting local anesthesia at the base of the digit to numb the digit.
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