Block Buddy Pro provides detailed descriptions and illustrations to help you select the best block for your patient.

Block Buddy Pro provides a recommended list of supplies specific to each nerve block.

No. The application provides suggested volumes of local anesthetics, but not dosages. Please consider patient’s body weight, medical history, drug allergies, and total local anesthetic volume when selecting the type and concentration of local anesthetic.

It is up to the discretion of each anesthesia provider and/or department policy. We strongly encourage the use of a nerve stimulator to help mitigate the risk of nerve injury.

This is variable and is dependent on the patient, the type and dose of local anesthetic, the type of nerve block, and the use of additives in the local anesthetic. Nerve blocks can last from several hours up to 3 days.

Nerve blocks help to improve pain control, reduce opioid consumption (and opioid-related side effects), improve patient satisfaction, and shorten hospital length of stay.

Yes! The RX Directory on Block Buddy Pro is a comprehensive list of anesthetics and non-opioid analgesics, so you can compare and choose which is best for your patient.