Mark R Jones, Matthew B Novitch, Sudipta Sen, Nadia Hernandez, Johanna Blair De Haan, Rebecca A Budish, Christopher H Bailey, Joseph Ragusa, Pankaj Thakur, Vwaire Orhurhu, Ivan Urits, Elyse M Cornett, Alan David Kaye
Surgeries and chronic pain states of the upper extremity are quite common and pose unique challenges for the clinical anesthesiology and pain specialists. Most innervation of the upper extremity involves the brachial plexus. The four most common brachial plexus blocks performed in clinical setting include the interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, and axillary brachial plexus blocks. These blocks are most commonly performed with the use of ultrasound-guided techniques, whereby analgesia is achieved by anesthetizing the brachial plexus at different levels such as the roots, divisions, cords, and branches...
March 2020: Best Practice & Research. Clinical Anaesthesiology