Main description:

This 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.

Contents:

Ultrasound 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