Colour Doppler mode can be very useful to identify blood vessels surrounding deeply located target nerves
UGRAadv
1 – Indications for the superficial cervical plexus block
Superficial cervical plexus block is indicated for head and neck analgesia:
– Central venous cannulation
– Anterior neck surgery
– Thyroid surgery
– Shoulder surgery “cape of anaesthesia”
– Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) – the carotid artery is innervated by the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves as well as sympathetic branches from the superior cervical ganglion which requires local anaesthetic injected in the carotid sinus region for surgical anaesthesia
– Clavicular fracture – combine superficial cervical plexus and brachial plexus blocks
1 – Learning objective
The learning objective of the advanced ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia program is to obtain in-depth sonoanatomical theoretical knowledge about the selected advanced nerve blocks.
1 – Probes
Basic UGRA can be performed solely with a high-frequency linear probe
Advanced UGRA requires high-frequency linear as well as low-frequency curved array probes