Spinal anesthesia is an essential procedure skill for anesthesia practitioners. The technique is featured in all anesthesia textbooks, and it is sufficiently simple so that even “occasional regionalists” use it with success. Observing the spinal anes...
Ultrasound Guided Femoral Nerve Block – The ultrasound (US)-guided technique of the femoral nerve block allows the practitioner to monitor the spread of local anesthetic and needle placement and make appropriate adjustments to accomplish the de...
Experienced practitioners of regional anesthesia sometimes call this block “spinal anesthesia for the upper extremity”, a pragmatic testimony to how complete anesthesia results from the supraclavicular block. However, the densely packed neural elemen...
Everyone knows that a small-gauge spinal needle requires a guide needle (introducer) during the administration of spinal anesthesia. However, HOW you use the guide needle to place a spinal needle through it into the subarachnoid space makes a signifi...
What to do if you accidentally disconnect the perineurial catheter? Dr Hadzic takes you through the steps of a real case study where the patient’s catheter, despite being very well secured in the interscalene brachial plexus space, unfortunately got ...
The axillary brachial plexus block is relatively simple to perform and may be associated with a lower risk of complications compared with interscalene (eg, spinal cord or vertebral artery puncture) and supraclavicular brachial plexus blocks (eg, pneu...
COVID-19 Patient was successfully prepared for surgery. In this video, Prof. Hadzic presents another clinical case; a 72-year old with displaced wrist fracture that is COVID-19 positive and has a high viral load. Take a look at how the patient is pre...
Transforming regional anesthesia into a one person procedure. Current regional anesthesia procedures require two practitioners working closely together. An assistant controls the syringe and is required to interpret injection resistance and ef...
In NYSORA’s latest teaching video, we take you through the principles of the Superficial Radial and Median Nerve Blocks for thumb contracture release. We describe how the procedure is done and where the needle needs to be placed. We also...
What is an epidural? An epidural is an anesthesia procedure that relieves pain during labor and delivery by blocking pain signals from the nerves in the lower spine to the brain. This results in substantial or complete absence of pain (analg...
