Objectives

-Increase the participants’ knowledge and competence to perform Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia procedures.
-Demonstrate proper transducer manipulation and system optimization to produce diagnostic images.
-List the advantages of using ultrasound-guided nerve block techniques.
-Identify and distinguish the topographic and cross-sectional brachial plexus anatomy.
-Outline imaging techniques for performing ultrasound-guided upper extremity regional anesthesia nerve blocks.
-Demonstrate imaging techniques for performing ultrasound-guided lower extremity nerve blocks on live models.
-State scan techniques for performing PECC and TAP blocks using ultrasound guidance.

Topics :

• Indications and Applications for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia
• Upper Extremity Nerve Blocks: Anatomy, US Scanning and Injection Techniques
  • Interscalene
  • Supraclavicular
  • Infraclavicular
  • Axillary
  • Musculocutaneous
  • Forearm: Radial, Ulnar, Median
• Truncal Blocks
  • PECS 1
  • PECCS 11
  • • Subcostal TAP
    • Classical TAP
    • Quadratus Lumborum Block
  • Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks: Anatomy US Scanning and Injection Techniques
    • Femoral
    • Fascia Iliaca Block
    • Saphenous/Adductor Canal Block
    • Sciatic (Popliteal & Subgluteal)
    • Ankle Blocks
  • Scan Demonstrations

Date of Original Release: 4/17/2019