BookFernando Alemanno, Mario Bosco, Aldo Barbati, editors.
Summary: Loco-regional anesthesia presents definite advantages in almost all surgical branches, since it couples a perfect anesthesia with a long postoperative analgesia. This discipline is constantly developing thanks to new drugs and new techniques. In the last decade the advent of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia has extended the study from the anatomic room to the virtual but real "in corpore viri" ecographic image thus increasing the success rate of this type of anesthesia. Together with electrostimulation, it has definitely increased the success rate of loco-regional anesthesia. Nonetheless, though supported by new fundamental tools, it is of the utmost importance for anesthesiologists to have a deep knowledge of the brachial plexus and of the topographic anatomy, on which the two first chapters are focused. Featuring a total of 16 chapters and more than 140 color illustrations, the volume provides a detailed coverage of this technique, thus representing a very useful tool for specializing students as well anesthesiologists in their daily clinical practice.
Contents:
1. Anatomy of the Brachial Plexus / F. Alemanno and E. Egarter Vigl
2. Topographical Anatomy / F. Alemanno and E. Egarter Vigl
3. Anatomy of the Cevical Plexus F. Alemanno and E. Egarter Vigl
4. The Anesthetic Line / P. Grossi
5. Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Percutaneous Identification of the Target / L. Perotti, M. Allegri, A. Matteazzi and P. Grossi
6. Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block Techniques / F. Alemanno
7. Ultrasound Guided Interscalene and Supraclavicular Blocks / Astrid U. Behr
8. Complications of Supraclavicular Techniques / F. Alemanno
9. Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block / M. Bosco and A. Clemente
10. Axillary Brachial Plexus Block M. Bosco and A. Clemente
11. Truncular Blocks / A. Barbati
12. Intravenous Regional Anesthesia / M. Raffa, M. Greco and A. Barbati
13. Sedation in Regional Anesthesia / F. Alemanno and F. Auricchio
14. Perineural Adjuvants for Postoperative Analgesia / F. Alemanno
15. Postoperative Analgesia / F. Coluzzi
16. Stellate Ganglion Block / F. Alemanno and B. Westermann.