“…In the trauma specifically, Buckenmaier et al have published extensively on the application and benefits of regional anesthesia and aggressive acute pain management in the wounded soldier [10,24,28,[32][33][34][35][36]. The work of their group has clearly demonstrated outcomes benefit of regional anesthesia as a component of multimodal analgesia in improving the pain control of wounded soldiers [28]. In addition to improved pain control, the early and successful control of pain may be associated with improvement in the psychological consequences of trauma such as anxiety, chronic pain, and potentially long-term psychological distress [2,3,7,12,13,15,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]34].…”