Regional Nerve Blocks And Infiltration Therapy (eBook)

Dr Danilo Jankovic, Germany

Danilo Jankovic Regional Nerve Blocks and Infiltration Therapy 1
Contents 11
Foreword 7
Preface to the third edition 8
Preface to the first edition 9
1 Regional nerve blocks and infiltration therapy in clinical practice 15
Head and neck region 30
2 Regional anesthesia in ophthalmology Andre van Zundert, Danilo Jankovic 33
3 Occipital nerves 44
4 Trigeminal nerve 47
5 Infiltration of trigger points in the muscles of mastication 69
6 Cervicothoracic ganglion (stellate ganglion) 73
7 Superior cervical ganglion 83
8 Deep (and superficial) cervical plexus 90
9 Brachial plexus 96
lnterscalene block 97
Supraclavicular perivascular (subclavian perivascular) block 110
Vertical infraclavicular block 113
Axillary block 120
Shoulder region 137
10 Suprascapular nerve 139
11 Subscapular nerve blocks Infiltration of subscapular muscle trigger points ("frozen shoulder") 142
12 Rotator cuff muscles Injection techniques in the myofascial trigger points 147
13 Shoulder region: intra-articular injections 152
Intra-articular injection into the shoulder joint 152
Intra-articular injection into the acromioclavicular joint 153
Elbow and hand region 155
14 Peripheral nerve blocks in the elbow region 157
15 Peripheral nerve blocks in the wrist region 160
16 Elbow and wrist Infiltration of myofascial trigger points and intra-articular injections 163
17 Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) 173
18 Intravenous sympathetic block with guanethidine (Ismelin) 178
Thorax, abdomen, lumbar and sacral spinal region 183
Thorax 185
19 Thoracic spinal nerve blocks 185
Lumbar spinal region 200
20 Lumbar paravertebral somatic nerve block 200
21 Lumbar sympathetic block 205
Abdomen 213
22 Celiac plexus block 213
Lumbosacral region 220
23 lliolumbosacral ligaments 220
24 Ganglion impar (Walther ganglion) block 224
25 Infiltration of the piriform trigger points (“piriform syndrome“) 228
Lower extremity 231
Anatomy of the lumbar plexus. sacral plexus and coccygeal plexus 232
Lumbar plexus blocks: introduction 234
26 Inguinal femoral paravascular block (“three-in-one“ block) 234
27 Psoas compartment block (Cheyen access) 240
28 Sciaticnerve block 244
Blocking individual nerves in the lumbar plexus 252
29 Femoral nerve 252
30 Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve 255
31 Obturator nerve 257
32 llioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerves 260
33 Blocking peripheral nerves in the knee joint region 262
34 Blocking peripheral nerves in the ankle joint region 268
Neuraxial anesthesia 275
35 Neuraxial anatomy 277
Spinal anesthesia 286
36 Spinal anesthesia 286
37 Complications of spinal anesthesia 299
38 Continuous spinal anesthesia (CSA) 307
39 Continuous spinal anesthesia (CSA) in obstetrics 313
40 Chemical intraspinal neurolysis with phenol in glycerol 315
Epidural anesthesia 319
41 Lumbar epidural anesthesia 319
42 Thoracic epidural anesthesia 341
43 Epidural anesthesia in obstetrics 347
44 Lumbar epidural anesthesia in children 355
45 Epidural steroid injection 360
46 Combined spinal and epidural anesthesia (CSE) 369
Caudal epidural anesthesia 375
47 Caudal anesthesia in adult patients 375
48 Caudal anesthesia in children 390
49 Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty James E. Heavner, Gabor B. Racz, Miles Day, Rinoo Shah 395
50 Adjuncts to local anesthesia in neuraxial blocks 405
References 411
Subject index 433

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