Abstract
Nerve blocks are conducted mainly for the patients who suffer from pain in our pain clinic. There are varieties of complications of nerve blocks, including local anesthetic intoxication, hemorrhage, hypotension, nerve palsy and etc. Therefore we inducted critical path into pain clinic. We report that critical path is very useful for the patients', medical and comedical staffs to get more profound comprehension for nerve blocks, early diagnosis of complications, improving team medicine, costs management, service efficiency, making a solid informed consent. In our department, we induce critical path into celiac plexus block, thoracic/lumbar parasympathetic block, nerve root block, Gasserian-ganglion-block for nerve blocks and facial palsy for disease.
