Dr. Lamontagne has extensive experience with management of patients with nerve catheters and starting a nerve catheter … Outpatient surgery. She will discuss dosing considerations for single shot nerve blocks and catheters including local anesthetic doses/options and adjuvants, duration of analgesia, precautions while the block lasts and importance of having an analgesia plan to motor block and function as well as follow up and monitoring of nerve deficits after nerve blocks. This will encompass when to perform nerve velocity and electromyography, and what options might exist to regain nerve function.