Links for me (and for anyone else into medical schtuff)

Rob remembered a vocabulary word from the clinic appointment yesterday. Yay Rob! Web research commences.

Bier Block technique description
Another Bier Block technique description
Nerve block comparisons

(This isn't what I'd be getting, quite. Same technique, but I'd be getting some other drug, not a 'caine. I don't remember what he said except "if the tourniquet fails you could seize and die". Also, supposed to affect only the sympathetic nerves.)

(I bet this is exactly how my foot surgery was done.)