> Ultrasound sounds great - 'ensuring that you get the local
> all around the
> nerve'
> Are you describing a technique for instilling around the
> femoral nerve for a
> block or into the facial plane for '3-in-1' block ? (or either?)
> How good does your musculo-skeletal ultrasound need to be?
Ultrasound can be used to assist either block, although obviously the getting all around the nerve applies to the femoral nerve block. It is probably the easiest ultrasound guided nerve block that there is.
Matt Dunn
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