Anesthesia of the Upper Limb A State of the Art Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alemanno, Fernando (Editor), Bosco, Mario (Editor), Barbati, Aldo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Loco-regional anesthesia presents definite advantages in almost all surgical branches, since it couples a perfect  anesthesia with a long postoperative analgesia. This discipline is constantly developing thanks to new drugs and new techniques. In the last decade the advent of ultrasound guided regio...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Anatomy of the Brachial Plexus
• 2.Topographical Anatomy
• 3.Anatomy of the Cevical Plexus
• 4.The Anesthetic Line
• 5.Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Percutaneous Identification of the Target
• 6.Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block Techniques
• 7.Ultrasound Guided Interscalene and Supraclavicular Blocks
• 8.Complications of Supraclavicular Techniques
• 9.Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block
• 10.Axillary Brachial Plexus Block
• 11.Truncular Blocks
• 12.Intravenous Regional Anesthesia
• 13.Sedation in Regional Anesthesia
• 14.Perineural Adjuvants for Postoperative Analgesia
• 15.Postoperative Analgesia
• 16.Stellate Ganglion Block.