Regional anesthesia for children undergoing cleft palate has been increasing in popularity. A new paper retrospectively reviews one center’s outcomes, and found that suprazygomatic maxillary nerve block reduced opioid consumption and length of stay when compared to surgical infiltration. 

Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656241234595

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