There are a few basic anatomical principles and concepts that pertain specifically to Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine. The author summarized these in this tutorial.
As for most nerve blocks, fascia planes are all-important. Nowhere is it more so than for ankle blocks. This video describes the innervation and the fascia planes around the ankle joint.
The knee joint receives its innervation from at least 7 nerves that we know of. This innervation is described here in detail, which will explain why certain popular blocks for knee surgery is worse than useless.
According to Hilton’s Law of Anatomy, all the nerves that innervate muscles that move a joint also innervate that joint. That makes total analgesia of the hip joint challenging, but, if the innervation of the hip joint as described her is understood, it becomes less of a challenge.
Effective nerve blocks of the shoulder joint can be a daunting task. This task becomes even impossible is the detailed innervation of the shoulder joint as described here is not understood.
Most of the action in Regional Anesthesia of the upper limb happens above the clavicle in the posterior triangle of the neck where the brachial plexus lives.
There are a few basic anatomical principles and concepts that pertain specifically to Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine. The author summarized these in this video.
Psoas compartment block is not synonymous with lumbar plexus block or lumbar paravertebral block. This tutorial explains the anatomy that differentiates them.
The eye socket is not merely a cavity, which, when filled up with local anesthetic agent constitutes an eye block. This tutorial takes an in depth look at the nerves that innervate different parts of the eye and also the barriers that separate them.
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