Full Description
The book covers regional anesthetic techniques, featuring flowcharts, illustrations, and necessary instruments. It provides tips and tricks for adequate analgesia during surgical procedures, particularly coverage of dermatomal sparing, failed spinal/epidural, and anatomical variations. The chapters cover various aspects of regional anesthesia, including block-related anatomy, troubleshooting barriers to successful blocks, use of a tourniquet and regional anaesthesia in extremes of age. It includes a step-by-step approach helping readers visualize the procedure in real time. The book is an invaluable resource for practicing doctors in peripheral and central locations and postgraduates.
Contents
A Peek into Regional anaesthesia instruments.- Revisiting Local Anaesthetic use in regional anaesthesia.- Regional Anaesthesia-General considerations.- Approach and troubleshooting to Scalp, Facial and airway blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Upper limb blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Thoracic blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Anterior Truncal blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Posterior Truncal blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Lower limb blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting to Central neuraxial blocks.- Approach and troubleshooting in paediatric regional anaesthesia.- Neuraxial Labour analgesia.- Regional nerve blocks for minor obstetrics and gynaecological procedures.- Re-emerging techniques in anaesthesia.- Torniquet and concerns.- Regional Anaesthesia and coagulation disorders.- Sympathetic nerve blocks.- Nerve blocks in palliative care.- Recent advances in regional anaesthesia.- Regional Anaesthesia in Low Resource Settings.
