Neurologic Complications of Peripheral Neural Blockade Hervé Bouaziz Dan Benhamou The exponential increase in the utilization of peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) began in the 1990s. This increase has been more…
Intercostal, Intrapleural, and Peripheral Blockade of the Thorax and Abdomen Dominic C. Harmon George D. Shorten Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are applicable to virtually every thoracic and abdominal surgical procedure….
Neural Blockade of Oral and Circumoral Structures Morton B. Rosenberg Joseph A. Giovannitti Jr. James C. Phero The ability to provide safe, effective local anesthesia is the foundation of clinical…
Somatic Blockade of the Head and Neck Santhanam Suresh Narasimhan Jagannathan Regional anesthesia for head and neck procedures have a long and successful history of use and application in dental…
Intravenous Regional Neural Blockade Per H. Rosenberg Intravenous (IV) regional neural blockade, or IV regional anesthesia (IVRA) is mainly used for short surgical procedures of the upper extremity. It can…
The Lower Extremity: Somatic Blockade F. Kayser Enneking Denise J. Wedel Terese T. Horlocker Lower extremity peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) have traditionally been less popular and less utilized compared to…
The Upper Extremity: Somatic Block Joseph M. Neal Upper extremity regional anesthesia is the most common form of peripheral nerve block performed by anesthesiologists, even when intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia…
Neurologic Complications of Neuraxial Block Terese T. Horlocker Denise J. Wedel Perioperative nerve injuries have long been recognized as a complication of spinal and epidural anesthesia. Neurologic complications associated with…
Epidural Neural Blockade Bernadette T. Veering Michael J. Cousins Although techniques of epidural anesthesia do not offer the economy of drug dosage or degrees of blockade of spinal anesthesia, they…
Anatomy of the Neuraxis Quinn H. Hogan Anatomy, the oldest of medical sciences, holds a central position in regional anesthesia because of the obvious necessity of correctly delivering the therapeutic…
