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Original Articles

• Treatment of Postmastectomy Pain With Ambulatory Continuous Paravertebral Nerve Blocks: A Randomized, Triple-Masked, Placebo-Controlled Study (1 March, 2014)

  Brian M. Ilfeld, Sarah J. Madison, Preetham J. Suresh, NavParkash S. Sandhu, Nicholas J. Kormylo, Nisha Malhotra, Vanessa J. Loland, Mark S. Wallace, James A. Proudfoot, Anya C. Morgan, Cindy H. Wen, Anne M. Wallace
• Prolonged Amelioration of Experimental Postoperative Pain by Bupivacaine Released From Microsphere-Coated Hernia Mesh (1 March, 2014)

  Rachit Ohri, Jeffery Chi-Fei Wang, Lan Pham, Phillip D. Blaskovich, Daniel Costa, Gary Nichols, William Hildebrand, Nelson Scarborough, Clifford Herman, Gary R. Strichartz
• Minimum Effective Volume of Combined Lidocaine-Bupivacaine for Analgesic Subparaneural Popliteal Sciatic Nerve Block (1 March, 2014)

  Wallaya Techasuk, Francisca Bernucci, Tracy Cupido, Andrea P. González, José A. Correa, Roderick J. Finlayson, De Q.H. Tran
• Does the Impact of the Type of Anesthesia on Outcomes Differ by Patient Age and Comorbidity Burden? (1 March, 2014)

  Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Rehana Rasul, Suzuko Suzuki, Jashvant Poeran, Thomas Danninger, Christopher Wu, Madhu Mazumdar, Vassilios Vougioukas
• Endogenous Opioid Inhibition of Chronic Low-Back Pain Influences Degree of Back Pain Relief After Morphine Administration (1 March, 2014)

  Stephen Bruehl, John W. Burns, Rajnish Gupta, Asokumar Buvanendran, Melissa Chont, Erik Schuster, Christopher R. France
• A Randomized Comparison of the Efficacy of 2 Techniques for Piriformis Muscle Injection: Ultrasound-Guided Versus Nerve Stimulator With Fluoroscopic Guidance (1 March, 2014)

  Ian M. Fowler, Anthony A. Tucker, Brian P. Weimerskirch, Thomas J. Moran, Robert J. Mendez
• Locally Injected Dexmedetomidine Induces Vasoconstriction via Peripheral α-2A Adrenoceptor Subtype in Guinea Pigs (1 March, 2014)

  Akiko Yabuki, Hitoshi Higuchi, Tatsushi Yoshitomi, Yumiko Tomoyasu, Minako Ishii-Maruhama, Shigeru Maeda, Takuya Miyawaki
• Ghrelin Alleviates Neuropathic Pain Through GHSR-1a–Mediated Suppression of the p38 MAPK/NF-κB Pathway in a Rat Chronic Constriction Injury Model (1 March, 2014)

  Cheng-Hua Zhou, Xin Li, Yang-Zi Zhu, He Huang, Jing Li, Lu Liu, Qian Hu, Teng-Fei Ma, Yong Shao, Yu-Qing Wu