From the experts of the New York School of Regional Anesthesia comes this concise, full-color tutorial for mastering or updating your expertise in nerve block techniques.
Illustrated with more than 175 life'like, full-color clinical photographs and line drawings, Peripheral Nerve Blocks provides the most practical, state-of-the-art guidance for most major nerve block procedures.
A standardized, user-friendly format provides meticulous, step-by-step instructions for each procedure including:
- General considerations
- Indications
- Functional anatomy
- Patient positioning
- Equipment
- choice of local anesthetic
- Distrution of anesthesia
- Surface and anatomical landmarks
- Single shot and continuous techniques
- Complications and how to avoid them
Contents
- Training in Peripheral Nerve Blocks
- Essential Regional Anesthesia Anatomy
- Equipment and Patient Monitoring in Regional Anesthesia
- Peripheral Nerve Stimulation and Nerve Stimulation
- Clinical Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics
- Neurological Complications of Peripheral Nerve Blocks
- Keys to Success with Peripheral Nerve Blocks
- Cervical Plexus Blocks
- Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block
- Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block
- Axillary Brachial Plexus Block
- Wrist Block
- Digital block
- Intravenous Regional Block of the Upper Extremity
- Cutaneous Nerve Block of the Upper Extremity
- Thoracic Paravertebral Block
- Thoraco-lumbar Paravertebral Block
- Lumbar Plexus Block
- Sciatic Nerve – Posterior Approach
- Sciatic Nerve – Anterior Approach
- Femoral Nerve Block
- Popliteal Block: Intertendinuous Approach
- Popliteal Block: Lateral Approach
- Ankle Block
- Cutaneous Nerve Block of the Lower Extremity
Index
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