This volume in the successful Made Easy series is aimed at all doctors working in accident and emergency departments to help remind them of the common nerve block techniques. These techniques can be difficult to master and require great precison. Each procedure is described in step-by-step detail along with accompanying colour illustrations.
Key Features
- Volume in successful Made Easy series.
- Short practical account of commonest local and regional anaesthesia techniques as will be encountered by junior doctors working in accident and emergency.
- Highly illustrated with colour photographs showing step by step procedures.
Author Information
By Mike Wells, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCPath MBBCh MScMed(Emergency Medicine) DipPEC(SA) FCEM(SA), Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
PLUERE Inc., CO, USA
Specialist Emergency Physician, Lecturer and Consultant, Director of Emergency Ultrasound Training, Division of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Netcare Union Hospital Emergency Department, Johannesburg, South Africa
Introduction. Local anaesthetic toxidromes and complications. Topical anaesthesia. Local anaesthesia. Basic dental and oral local anaesthesia. Haematoma block. Intra-articular local anaesthesia. Intrapleural block. Intravenous regional anaesthesia. Nerve block regional anaesthesia. Procedural sedation and analgesia.