Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 334-339 , August 2010

Role of local anesthetic spread pattern and electrical stimulation in ultrasound-guided musculocutaneous nerve block

Received 30 August 2008 ,Revised 22 September 2009 ,Accepted 27 September 2009.

References 

  1. Sinha A, Chan VW. Ultrasound imaging for popliteal sciatic nerve block. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2004;29:130–134
  2. Hadzic A. Peripheral nerve stimulators: cracking the code–one at a time. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2004;29:185–188
  3. Urmey WF, Stanton J. Inability to consistently elicit a motor response following sensory paresthesia during interscalene block administration. Anesthesiology. 2002;96:552–554
  4. Perlas A, Niazi A, McCartney C, Chan V, Xu D, Abbas S. The sensitivity of motor response to nerve stimulation and paresthesia for nerve localization as evaluated by ultrasound. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2006;31:445–450
  5. Schafhalter-Zopoth I, Gray AT. The musculocutaneous nerve: ultrasound appearance for peripheral nerve block. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2005;30:385–390
  6. Sobotta J. 3rd ed. Atlas d'anatomie humaine. Vol. 1. Paris (Cachan), France: Editions Médicales Internationales Cachan; 1993;
  7. Spence BC, Sites BD, Beach ML. Ultrasound-guided musculocutaneous nerve block: a description of a novel technique. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2005;30:198–201
  8. Orebaugh SL, Williams BA, Kentor ML. Ultrasound guidance with nerve stimulation reduces the time necessary for resident peripheral nerve blockade. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2007;32:448–454
  9. Chan VW, Perlas A, McCartney CJ, Brull R, Xu D, Abbas S. Ultrasound guidance improves success rate of axillary brachial plexus block. Can J Anaesth. 2007;54:176–182
  10. Franco CD, Rahman A, Voronov G, Kerns JM, Beck RJ, Buckenmaier CC. Gross anatomy of the brachial plexus sheath in human cadavers. Anesth Pain Med. 2008;33:64–69
  11. Casati A, Danelli G, Baciarello M, et al. A prospective, randomized comparison between ultrasound and nerve stimulation guidance for multiple injection axillary brachial plexus block. Anesthesiology. 2007;106:992–996
  12. Sia S, Bartoli M, Lepri A, Marchini O, Ponsecchi P. Muliple-injection axillary brachial plexus block: a comparison of two methods of nerve localization-nerve stimulation versus paresthesia. Anesth Analg. 2000;91:647–651
  13. Tsui B. Ultrasound-guidance and nerve stimulation: implications for the future practice of regional anesthesia. Can J Anaesth. 2007;54:165–170
  14. Tsui B, Chan VW, Finucane BT, Grau TH, Walji AH. Atlas of ultrasound and nerve-stimulation guided regional anesthesia. 1st ed. New York: Springer Verlag; 2007;

PII: S0952-8180(10)00168-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2009.09.008

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 334-339 , August 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution