The report also said a patient was given a nerve block on the wrong side of the body, and a "life threatening emergency" occurred while another patient was being anesthetised.

BBC: BMI Mount Alvernia Hospital, Guildford

Among other treatments, doctors can block nerve transmission with local anaesthetic can also help disturb pain messages.

BBC: Doctors call for improved pain care

They have pinpointed, one by one, a brew of proteins in the spinal cord that block this incipient nerve growth.

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