Handbook of Small Animal Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Techniques

Features:

• Provides straightforward advice and easy-to-implement strategies for general veterinary practitioners without specialist training who want to incorporate regional anesthesia into their practice
• Features an accessible design with plenty of diagrams and photos and a convenient and robust spiral-bound format that lays flat for use during procedures
• Broken into sections which explain techniques by limb or body part and by species
• Details important anatomy (nerves, bones, and vessels), as well as possible side effects and complications

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction

• Reasons to provide regional anesthesia
• Equipment
• Complications and contraindications
• Species differences and considerations
• Safe practice
• References
• Further reading

2. Cutaneous Innervation Index

• Cutaneous innervation index
• Canine dermatomes

3. Infiltration Blocks

• Infiltration for mass removal
• Block of the surgical incision
• Intercostal blocks
• Interpleural block (also known as intrapleural or pleural)
• Intraperitoneal block
• References

4. Blocks of the Head

• Retrobulbar
• Maxillary
• Infraorbital
• Mandibular (or inferior alveolar)
• Mental (or middle mental)
• Auriculotemporal and great auricular
• References

5. Regional Anesthetic Blocks of the Limbs

• Thoracic limb regional anesthetic blocks
• Pelvic limb
• References

6. Epidurals and Spinals

• Lumbosacral epidural and spinal in dogs
• Lumbosacral epidural in cats
• Caudal epidural in dogs and cats
• References

7. Emergency Procedures

• Complications associated with local anesthetic techniques
• Complications associated with local anesthetic drugs

References

Further reading

Index