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.
Gerancher
J C
JC
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. jgeranch@wfubmc.edu
D001132:Arm / Q000294:innervation*; D006801:Humans; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000379:methods*