For chest and abdominal analgesia - paravertebral block ultrasound


Posted February 13, 2013 by tedmark

Abdominal and chest surgeries or chronic pain condition of the abdomen and chest can now be treated with paravertebral block ultrasound

 
Treating abdomen and chest chronic pain condition can be quite easy by using the paravertebral block ultrasound procedure. The paravertebral block ultrasound procedure is used as a primary anesthetic for chest traumas basically, breast surgery that is very common today among women, laparoscopic surgeries, or abdominal surgeries. It is very important to know the whole process of this procedure and to decide if this anesthesia would be suitable for your patient or not. You also need to pay attention to the needles that you use and to the anatomy of each patient.

If the patient needs an ankle surgery or any surgery to the lower leg, than you should know that the ultrasound guided saphenous nerve block can be a suitable block technique. The saphenous nerve is a femoral nerve that is the only one that is not deviated from the sciatic nerve and it is also the largest sensory branch of the femoral nerve. The ultrasound guided saphenous nerve block is commonly used in ankle and foot surgery and it is not recommended by the specialists in knee surgery. The saphenous nerve has many branches and it can be quite hard to be able to anesthetize the whole nerve. Because of this disadvantage you need to be very careful when chosing this procedure.

Learning about paravertebral block ultrasound procedure and ultrasound guided saphenous nerve block is not an easy task, but if you want to become a good anesthesiologist, you sometimes need to take hard decisions, especially when you have patients with different allergies and other health problems that can affect the effect of the anesthesia. Learning about all these procedures you can work someday in a good clinic and use all the best technologies available on the market, but until that time comes, you have to practice and keep learning.

The quantity of the anesthetic is very important in both procedures, and depending on your patient you need to establish the right quantity of anesthetic to block the nerves. You need to calculate very well the local anesthetic that will be injected, especially when you are using the paravertebral block procedure because you will need sometimes more than six injections when you have to block the bilateral paravertebral. Taking the right decisions before and after the surgery will help the surgeon to perform the surgery and the patient to feel better after the surgery and to recover fast and without any complications.

One of the best ways to learn how to perform the block techniques correctly is to watch the videos that well known anesthesiologist post on their websites and to listen to all the explanations that are given in the video. This way you will learn easier, because you don’t only hear how to perform a block technique, but you also see how someone else is doing it and you can practice it after you will become a resident physician.

The ultrasound guided saphenous nerve block http://www.ultrasoundblock.com/index.php/nerve-block-techniques/nerve-block-leg/saphenous-nerve-block is commonly used in ankle and foot surgery. The paravertebral block ultrasound http://www.ultrasoundblock.com/index.php/nerve-block-techniques/nerve-block-other/paravertebral-ultrasound-block procedure is used as a primary anesthetic for chest traumas.
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Last Updated February 13, 2013