Regional Anesthesia Inflammation Vagus Nerve Article type: Editorial Please cite this paper as:

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical edu-cation: Interventions to reduce systemic inflammation by regional an-esthesiologists may improve patients ’ outcome in the future. Published by Kowsar Corp. All rights reserved. We as regional anesthesiologists often use peripheral nerve blocks as a modality for intraoperative analgesia, but it is not well understood whether regional anesthesia can play a role beyond simple interruption of peripheral nerve conduction. Several published manuscripts in re-cent years on the potential non-analgesic applications of regional anesthesia encourage us to expand its role from intraoperative to the perioperative period. However, its clinical advantages are not fully disclosed and even its overall beneficial effect on patient outcome is still con