Description
Book SynopsisThis handbook is an up-to-date, evidence based quick, easy reference guide for expert regional anesthesia providers. It will also be an invaluable tool and a great entry point for amateurs' sonographers who wish to understand the basics of ultrasound, its uses for diagnosis and treatment, current guidelines and standards of care. It presents in details challenges, stratification of risks, techniques, and approaches to facilitate effective ultrasound use in perioperative pain control and emergency room pain management. This uses an outline, schematic approach for easy understanding and retention.
The applications of ultrasound are vast and cover the full spectrum of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia. This book concentrates and encompasses the most clinically relevant information as a first aid use of perioperative ultrasound. The chapters are concise, focusing on clinical presentations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis which will help you to deliver patient care in a timely and skillful manner. This compact book is packed with relevant, remarkable information related to ultrasound guided techniques and evidence-based protocols and latest guidelines for regional anesthesia, nerve blocks, and opioid-reducing analgesia to promote early recovery after surgery.
Concise, practical, and clinically applicable for various specialties, this book fills the unmet need for understanding the usefulness and techniques of ultrasound and its application in perioperative pain management, in particular regional anesthesia and nerve blocks. This handbook enables every physician, nurse, resident and all medical staff to understand the essentials of ultrasound and regional anesthesia, its evolving techniques, and the use of modern equipment to provide patient care safely.
Table of ContentsUltrasound guided spinal anesthesia
Ultrasound guided epidural anesthesia
Ultrasound guided caudal anesthesia
Ultrasound guided paravertebral anesthesia
Ultrasound guided head and neck regional anesthesia
Ultrasound guided fascial plane blocks placed in abdomen
Ultrasound guided fascial plane blocks placed in chest
Ultrasound guided nerve block for upper extremity
Ultrasound guided nerve block for lower extremity
Regional anesthesia protocols for cranial surgery
Regional anesthesia protocols for neck surgery
Regional anesthesia protocols for unilateral and bilateral chest procedures
Regional anesthesia protocols for unilateral and bilateral abdominal procedures
Complete analgesia protocols for shoulder and proximal humerus procedures
Complete analgesia protocols for elbow procedures
Complete analgesia protocols for Ulna and Radius procedures
Complete analgesia protocols for wrist and hand procedures
Analgesia protocols for spine procedures
Analgesia protocols for pelvic procedures
Analgesia protocols for hip procedures
Analgesia protocols for knee procedures
Analgesia protocols for Tibia and Fibula procedures
Analgesia protocols for ankle procedures
Regional anesthesia in pediatric patient population
Regional anesthesia in obstetric patient population
Regional anesthesia for geriatrics
Vascular access: arteria and venous
Point of care ultrasound
