• Anaesthesia · Jun 2011

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ultrasound-guided interscalene blocks: understanding where to inject the local anaesthetic.

    • B C Spence, M L Beach, J D Gallagher, and B D Sites.
    • Anaesthesiology and Community & Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. brian.c.spence@hitchcock.org
    • Anaesthesia. 2011 Jun 1;66(6):509-14.

    AbstractAlthough ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia has gained in popularity, few data exist describing the optimal location(s) to inject local anaesthetic. Our objective was to compare, for interscalene blocks, the effectiveness of an injection between the middle scalene muscle and brachial plexus sheath (peri-plexus) with an injection within the brachial plexus sheath (intra-plexus). We enrolled 170 patients undergoing shoulder surgery with general anaesthesia and interscalene block in this randomised, controlled trial. Our primary outcome variable was loss of shoulder abduction. Block quality was also measured and defined by an evaluation of onset time, sensory and motor loss and duration. There was no difference between the two groups in block onset times or block quality. After adjusting for sex, age and volume injected, intra-plexus blocks lasted a mean of 2.6 h (16%) longer (95% CI 0.25-5.01, p=0.03) than peri-plexus blocks.© 2011 The Authors. Anaesthesia © 2011 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

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