Determination of the minimum effective volume of 0.5% bupivacaine for ultrasound-guided axillary brachial plexus block

Background and objective: The use of ultrasound for needle correct placement and local anesthetic spread monitoring helped to reduce the volume of local anesthetic required for peripheral nerve blocks. There are few studies of the minimum effective volume of local anesthetic for axillary brachial pl...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Leonardo Henrique Cunha Ferraro, Alexandre Takeda, Luiz Fernando dos Reis Falcão, André Hosoi Rezende, Eduardo Jun Sadatsune, Maria Angela Tardelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0104001413001449