Main description:

This comprehensive, highly didactic book on ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (peripheral, neuraxial and perineuraxial nerve blocks) presents meticulously labelled images, diagrams and picture-in-picture samples and includes high-quality, vignetted illustrations that are consistent in style. The ultrasound images are outstanding and carefully selected to demonstrate the most clinically relevant situations. Importantly, they have a real-world appearance, including actual needle paths and desired disposition of injectate during nerve block procedures; most are from the original database of Dr. Eisenberg. All the supplementary material is authoritative and presented as an artful balance of years of clinical experience and a summary of the peer reviewed literature.

Ultrasound in Peripheral, Neuraxial and Perineuraxial Regional Anaesthesia, accompanied by richly illustrated material and videos of state-of-the-art techniques, is of interest to anyone interested in learning, furthering their existing knowledge of, or teaching ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia.

Contents:

1) Physical Basics of Ultrasound2) Ultrasound in Regional Anaesthesia: Why and When?3) Ultrasound in Regional Anaesthesia: How?4) General Notions of Anatomy Applied to Regional Anaesthesia5) Brachial Plexus Blocks6) Lumbar Plexus Blocks7) Sacral Plexus Blocks8) Cervical Plexus Blocks9) Abdominal Wall Nerve Blocks10) Thoracic Paravertebral Block11) Peripheral Nerve Blocks of the Thoracic Ventrolateral Wall: Type I PECS Block, Type II PECS Block, and Serratus Plane Block12) Ultrasound in Neuraxial and Perineuraxial Blocks.