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Official Satellite Symposium of the 12th World Congress of Pain

“Ultrasound Guidance for Diagnosis and Interventional Management of Pain”

 August 15-16, 2008  Glasgow, Scotland

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Selected Internet Links for Ultrasound Regional Nerve Block Topics

The links that appear here are gathered from various search engines and other sources. They appear in no particular order and needless to say their views, opinions and content are their own and have nothing to do directly with neuraxiom.com.

• ASA - Ultrasound Imaging for Nerve Block: A Standard Practice for the Future
• NYSORA -Nerve Block Techniques
• Anesthesia & Analagesia - Ultrasound-guided supraclavicular approach for regional anesthesia of the brachial plexus
• British Journal of Anaesthesia - Editorial I, Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks
• Canadian Journal - New perspectives in regional anesthesia: the use of ultrasound – past, present, and future

 

 

 

 

Slow Injection of Local = Better Blocks

Once the needle is in place, injecting the local anesthetic slowly probably decreases the amount that ends up in the blood and may result in a more even distribution of the drug around the nerve.

A link discussing this concept is here.
 

Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks in the Literature

• An article in the British Journal of Anaesthesiology gives a fairly comprehensive view of the different applications of ultrasound in regional anesthesia. Click here for the article.

Links to Other Sites

NYSORA

RASCI

ASRA

UW Anesthesia