TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 51. Ultrasound-Assisted Nerve Blocks in Adults
A1  - Perlas, Anahi
A1  - Chan, Vincent
A2  - Hadzic, Admir
PY  - 2007
T2  - NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
AB  - In  recent  years  interest  has  been  growing  in  the  practice  of  regional  anesthesia  and,  in  particular,  in  peripheral  nerve  blocks  for  surgical  anesthesia  and  postoperative  analgesia.  Peripheral  nerve  blocks  have  been  found  to  be  superior  to  general  anesthesia1  because  they  provide  effective  analgesia  with  few  side  effects2  and  can  hasten  patient  recovery.3  Unfortunately,  the  practice  of  regional  anesthesia  does  not  enjoy  widespread  endorsement  because  of  inconsistent  success,  varying  from  one  anesthesiologist  to  another.  Current  methods  of  nerve  localization  (eg,  paresthesia  and  nerve  stimulation)  are  essentially  “blind”  procedures,  since  they  both  rely  on  indirect  evidence  of  needle-to-nerve  contact.4,5  Seeking  nerves  by  trial  and  error  and  random  needle  movement  can  cause  complications.  Although  uncommon,  complications  such  as  intravascular  local  anesthetic  injection  resulting  in  systemic  toxicity,  inadvertent  spinal  cord  injury  following  interscalene  block,  pneumothorax  following  supraclavicular  block,  and  nerve  injury  have  all  been  reported.6,7  
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Y2  - 2024/04/24
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