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Anaesthesiology
Plan A (Basic) Blocks for Upper and Lower Limbs, and Trunk
Built from Practical Ultrasound in Anesthesia
What’s inside
4 sections · 105 slides
Overview
- What this deck covers
- The Plan A block family
Upper Limb
Interscalene and axillary brachial plexus blocks
- Innervation of the upper limb
- Formation of the brachial plexus
- Terminal nerves at the axilla
- Interscalene block target
- Interscalene brachial plexus approach
- Interscalene indications and contraindications
- Interscalene advantages and disadvantages
- Interscalene equipment and drugs
- Interscalene patient position
- Interscalene technique — finding the groove
- Cervical root C5 on the transverse process
- Cervical root C6 on the transverse process
- Cervical transverse processes and nerve roots
- Interscalene technique — landmarks and injection
- Interscalene transducer position
- Probe and needle at the interscalene groove
- Interscalene complications
- Axillary block target
- Axillary anatomy
- Axillary indications and contraindications
- Axillary advantages
- Axillary equipment and drugs
- Axillary patient position
- Axillary technique — the conjoint tendon landmark
- Axillary brachial plexus block
- Axillary technique — nerve positions
- Nerve positions around the axillary artery
- Axillary technique — needle sequence
- Axillary anatomy with conjoint tendon
- Axillary needle trajectories
- Axillary technique — confirming nerve identity
- Axillary complications
Lower Limb
Femoral, adductor canal, and sciatic–popliteal blocks
- Femoral nerve anatomy
- Femoral nerve branches in the thigh
- Femoral nerve anatomy
- Femoral nerve sensory and motor supply
- Femoral block indications
- Femoral block contraindications
- Femoral block advantages and disadvantages
- Femoral block equipment and drugs
- Femoral block patient position
- Patient position for femoral nerve block
- Femoral block technique
- Femoral nerve block sonoanatomy
- Femoral block complications
- Saphenous nerve anatomy
- Adductor canal anatomy
- Adductor canal indications
- Adductor canal contraindications
- Adductor canal advantages
- Adductor canal equipment and drugs
- Adductor canal patient position
- Patient position for adductor canal block
- Adductor canal technique
- Adductor canal anatomy
- Adductor canal block sonoanatomy
- Adductor canal complications
- Sciatic nerve anatomy
- Lumbar plexus branches
- Lumbar plexus and sciatic nerve
- Tibial and common peroneal nerves
- Popliteal fossa anatomy
- Sciatic sensory supply
- Sciatic nerve sensory innervation
- Sciatic block indications
- Sciatic block contraindications
- Sciatic block advantages
- Sciatic block drugs
- Sciatic block equipment
- Sciatic block patient position
- Transducer position for the popliteal block
- Patient positions for the popliteal block
- Sciatic block technique — finding the nerve
- Sciatic nerve sonoanatomy
- Sciatic nerve at the popliteal fossa
- Sciatic block technique — injecting in the sheath
- Sciatic block complications
Trunk
Rectus sheath and serratus anterior plane blocks
- Rectus sheath anatomy
- Rectus sheath anatomy
- Rectus sheath indications and contraindications
- Rectus sheath advantages
- Rectus sheath equipment
- Rectus sheath drugs
- Rectus sheath patient position
- Rectus sheath technique
- Rectus sheath complications
- Serratus plane anatomy
- Serratus plane indications
- Serratus plane advantages
- Serratus plane equipment
- Serratus plane drugs
- Serratus plane patient position
- Serratus plane technique
- Two planes for the serratus block
- Superficial serratus anterior plane block
- Deep serratus anterior plane block
- Serratus plane complications
- Key takeaways
- References
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- Practical Ultrasound in Anesthesia for Critical Care and Pain Management