Ultrasound guidance does not improve local anesthetic distribution in suprazygomatic maxillary nerve blocks in pediatric patients: a clinical, randomized, controlled, observer-blinded, crossover MRI trial
Nergis Nina Suleiman, Ingrid Lien, Mehdi Sadat Akhavi, Davide Impieri, Kyrre Ullensvang, Jon Magnus Moen, Pernille Lindholm, Eldrid Langesæter, Axel R Sauter · 2026
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Nergis Nina Suleiman and co-authors report a 2026 randomized crossover trial testing whether ultrasound guidance improves maxillary nerve blocks in children having cleft palate surgery. These blocks ease pain after repair, and guidance by ultrasound is widely assumed to beat the older landmark technique. Twenty children received both approaches, one on each side, with the side chosen at random, and magnetic resonance imaging then showed where the anesthetic had actually spread.
Anesthetic reached the target fossa and touched the nerve in 13 of 20 landmark blocks and 14 of 20 ultrasound blocks, a difference well within chance. No complications occurred with either technique. Since roughly two-thirds of blocks succeeded regardless of guidance, the authors suggest good pain control does not depend on imaging equipment being available. Future effort, they argue, should go toward raising the success rate of the block itself.
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| CREATOR | Nergis Nina Suleiman, Ingrid Lien, Mehdi Sadat Akhavi, Davide Impieri, Kyrre Ullensvang, Jon Magnus Moen, Pernille Lindholm, Eldrid Langesæter, Axel R Sauter |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |