Description
Ultrasound technology is enabling anesthesiologists to perform regional anesthetic procedures with greater confidence in accuracy and precision. With improvements in visualizing neural anatomy and needle movement, ultrasound guidance improves patient safety and operating room efficiency. This book offers a detailed, stepwise approach to this technique, identifying pearls and pitfalls to ensure success. Topics are organized into four chapters. The first chapter provides the basic principles behind ultrasound guided regional anesthesia, setting a strong context for the rest of the book. The last three cover the nerve blocks: upper extremity, lower extremity, and chest, trunk and spine. Each nerve block is comprehensively explained, divided up by introduction, anatomy, clinical applications, technique, alternate techniques, complications, and pearls. This new edition includes discussions of 6 new blocks: the suprascapular block, axillary nerve block for shoulder surgery, fascia iliaca block, lateral femoral cutaneous block, and the adductor canal block. This edition also contains over 40 new procedural and imaging figures, an appendix on what blocks to perform for specific surgeries, and new information on choice of local anesthetic agent, types of catheters and practical ultrasound physics to help improve scanning. Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia provides authoritative, in-depth coverage of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia for the anesthesiologist beginning to use ultrasound and makes a great reference for the more seasoned physician.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Basic Principles of Ultrasound Guided Nerve BlockBasic Ultrasound Physics and Ultrasound Machine SettingsHow to Visualize Nerves and NeedlesCommon Artifacts and ErrorsPositioning the PatientEquipment and PreparationKeys to Ultrasound SuccessPeripheral Nerve Catheter Placement PrinciplesAppendix: What Block for What Surgery?Chapter 2: Upper Limb Ultrasound Guided Regional AnesthesiaInterscalene Nerve BlockSuprascapular Nerve BlockCervical Plexus Nerve BlockSupraclavicular Nerve BlockInfraclavicular Nerve BlockAxillary Nerve BlockIntercostobrachial Nerve BlockNerve Blocks of the Elbow and ForearmChapter 3: Lower Limb Ultrasound Guided Nerve BlockFemoral Nerve BlockFascia Iliaca BlockLateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve BlockAdductor Canal (Selective Femoral Nerve) BlockSaphenous Nerve BlockObturator Nerve BlockPosterior Lumbar Plexus Block (Psoas Compartment Block)Sciatic Nerve BlockAnterior Sciatic Nerve BlockPopliteal Sciatic Nerve BlockAnkle BlockChapter 4: Trunk and Spine Ultrasound Guided Regional AnesthesiaTransversus Abdominis Plane BlockQuadratus Lumborum BlockIlioinguinal-Iliohypogastric Nerve BlockRectus Sheath Nerve BlockPECS BlockSerratus Plane BlockParavertebral Nerve BlockNeuraxial Anesthesia and Analgesia



