Upper extremity nerve blocks.
Anatomy favorable to the application of regional blockade, the capacity to decrease latency and prolong blockade, and the opportunity to facilitate recovery and decrease costs create a constellation of factors that have the potential to make upper extremity blockade a tremendously rewarding application of modern regional anesthetic technique. These rewards can be realized by the motivated anesthesiologist and shared with patients, surgical colleagues, and hospital administrators.
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. jgeranch@wfubmc.edu
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D001132:Arm / Q000294:innervation*; D006801:Humans; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000379:methods*