Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks
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Beschreibung
This book offers a comprehensive but straightforward, practical handbook on ultrasound (US)-guided nerve blocks. It presents the normal US anatomy of peripheral nerves, clinical aspects of nerve entrapment and different procedures / techniques for each block. Axial or peripheral chronic radicular pain can be particularly severe and debilitating for the patient. The aim of treatment is to provide medium-/ long-term pain relief, and consequently to restore function. The therapeutic nerve block, performed with a perineural injection of anaesthetic, steroid or painkiller, is generally used once conservative treatments have proven unsuccessful and is aimed to avoid surgical options.
Ultrasound guidance, offering the direct and real-time visualization of the needle and adjacent relevant anatomic structures, significantly increases the accuracy and safety of nerve blocks reducing the risk of intraneural or intravascular injection and the potential damage to the surrounding structures, but also enhances the efficacy of the block itself, reducing its onset and drug doses.
This practical volume addresses the needs of physicians dealing with pain management, e.g. anaesthesiologists, radiologists, orthopaedists and physiatrists, with various levels of experience, ranging from physicians in training to those who already perform peripheral nerve blocks with traditional techniques and who want to familiarize with US guided procedures.
Presents the normal US anatomy, explained with the help of dedicated didactic schemes
Shows the clinical aspects of nerve entrapment syndromes
Offers a practical step-by-step guide on how to perform US-guided peripheral nerve blocks
Presents the normal US anatomy, explained with the help of dedicated didactic schemes Shows the clinical aspects of nerve entrapment syndromes Offers a practical step-by-step guide on how to perform US-guided peripheral nerve blocks
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Enzo Silvestri
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“The book is well written, concise yet comprehensive and will prove invaluable for anaesthetists, radiologists and pain physicians who are utilising or starting to perform peripheral nerve blocks under ultrasound guidance. Highly recommended.” (A D Taylor, RAD Magazine, August, 2019)
“The purpose is to provide a better understanding of ultrasound physics, sonoanatomy of nerves, and injection techniques. … Pain physicians as well as primary care physicians, ER physicians, and orthopedic physicians will find it very helpful. … There are plenty of illustrations and ultrasound images of anatomy, the text is simple and to the point, and scanning techniques are clearly described.” (Tariq M. Malik, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2018)
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