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Pediatric Nerve Block: Trunk and Neuraxial

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Regional Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy

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Regional anesthesia for thoracic and abdominal analgesia offers fascinating insight into the history and evolution of block techniques over the past few decades. A major contributor to this evolution has been the technological advancements in ultrasound imaging quality and portability. Although we continue to rely on anatomical landmarks and tactile feedback when performing neuraxial techniques such as spinal, caudal, and epidural anesthesia, ultrasound guidance has allowed us to more clearly visualize and safely perform perineural blocks and discover new interfascial blocks. This chapter focuses not only on the practical aspect of each individual block technique but the interrelationship of all the truncal blocks.

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This chapter was written using Dr. Tsui’s textbook, Ultrasound and Nerve Stimulation-Guidance in Pediatric Regional Anesthesia as a template. The authors thank Jenkin Tsui for providing original artwork for the figures.

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Pan, S., Cheung, S.S.K., Tsui, B.C.H. (2022). Pediatric Nerve Block: Trunk and Neuraxial. In: Jankovic, D., Peng, P. (eds) Regional Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88727-8_76

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