RT Book, Section
A1 Gadsden, Jeff
A2 Hadzic, Admir
SR Print(0)
ID 55900763
T1 Chapter 6. Indications for Peripheral Nerve Blocks
T2 Hadzic's Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Anatomy for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia, 2e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-154963-9
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55900763
RD 2024/04/19
AB During  the  past  20  years,  increasing  knowledge  in  functional  regional  anesthesia  anatomy,  coupled  with  new  technologies  for  locating  peripheral  nerves,  has  resulted  in  expansion  of  regional  anesthesia  techniques.  This  phenomenon  served  to  provide  the  clinician  with  a  wide  variety  of  techniques  from  which  to  choose.  Nevertheless,  many  nerve  block  techniques  are  quite  similar  and  result  in  a  similar,  if  not  exact,  distribution  of  anesthesia.  The  proper  choice  of  the  nerve  block  for  a  particular  surgical  procedure  and/or  patient,  however,  is  far  more  important  than  deliberation  on  the  minutia  of  various  technical  techniques.  In  this  chapter,  a  rational  selection  of  the  nerve  block  techniques  is  approached  in  three  sections.  In  the  first  section,  indications  for  common  nerve  blocks  are  listed  with  a  short  summary  of  the  advantages  and  disadvantages  of  each  technique  selected.  In  the  second  section,  specific  protocols  for  intraoperative  anesthesia  and  postoperative  analgesia  for  the  common  surgical  procedures  are  suggested  as  practiced  by  anesthesiologists  affiliated  with  the  St.  Luke's  and  Roosevelt  Hospitals  in  New  York.  This  cookbook  approach  was  chosen  to  allow  clinicians  to  duplicate  the  results  that  we  have  found,  via  trial  and  error,  to  work  best  in  our  own  practice.  The  last  section  is  a  more  comprehensive  compendium  of  published  medical  literature  on  the  indications  for  peripheral  nerve  blocks.