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PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCKS AND PERI-OPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF
Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Peri-operative Pain Relief
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By
Jack Barrett, FFARCS(I), Dip(Pain Medicine), Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University College Cork, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
Dominic Harmon, FFARCS(I), FRCA, MD, Professor of Pain Medicine, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland
Frank Loughnane, MB, BChFRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesia, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
Brendan Finucane, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCA, FRCPC, Professor and Residency Program Director, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
George Shorten, MD, PhD, Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University College Cork and Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland; formerly, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Description
Over 300 state-of-the-art interventional MR and ultrasound images demonstrate how to successfully perform a full range of peripheral nerve blocks techniques. Together with the video clips on the enclosed bonus DVD, these images perfectly capture the relevant internal anatomical structures and depict correct needle placement in real patients?presenting cutting-edge visual guidance not currently available in any other textbook or atlas. Readers will be to visualize anatomical structures clearly in live subjects, master needle placement, and perform neural blocks more effectively than ever before.

Contents


Section A. Principles


1. Introduction (How To Use This Atlas and DVD)

2. Regional Anaesthesia In Perspective - History, Current Role and the Future

3. Mechanism of Action of Local Anaesthetics

4. General?Indications and Contraindications

5. Complications, Toxicity and Safety

6. Peripheral Nerve Blockade Materials



Section B. Peripheral Nerve Blocks


7. Cervical Plexus Blockade

8. Orbital Blocks

9. Brachial Plexus Anatomy

10. Interscalene Block

11. Supraclavicular Block

12. Suprascapular Block

13. Axillary Block

14. Vertical Infraclavicular Block

15. Mid-Humeral Block

16. Elbow Blocks

17. Wrist Blocks

18. Lumbar and Sacral Plexus Anatomy

19. Posterior Sciatic Nevre Block

20. Anterior Sciatic Nerve Block

21. Femoral Nerve Block

22. Psoas Block

23. Iliacus Block

24. Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of Thigh Block

25. Popliteal Block

26. Ankle Block

27. Paravertebral Block

28. Intercostal Block

29. Inguinal Field Block


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 160 pages, publication date: SEP-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2717-8
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2717-0
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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