• Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2013

    Case Reports

    Case report: Three-dimensional high-resolution ultrasound-guided nerve blocks: a new panoramic vision of local anesthetic spread and perineural catheter tip location.

    • Olivier Choquet and Xavier Capdevila.
    • From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lapeyronie University Hospital, Montpellier, France.
    • Anesth. Analg. 2013 May 1; 116 (5): 117611811176-1181.

    AbstractWe report in 3 patients that high-frequency ultrasound 3-dimensional imaging enabled us to analyze anatomic variations, evaluate local anesthetic spread, and optimize a perineural catheter location by withdrawing it until its tip was appropriately positioned. This innovative technology may provide answers to different problems facing the operator performing ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. It may enhance predictability and safety aspects of peripheral nerve blocks.

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