Regional anaesthesia for upper limb surgery redefined

Objectives

At the end of the workshop delegates should understand if possible to demonstrate the following.

• Able to identify roots, trunks, division, cords and individual nerves of the BP.
• Able to correlate sonoanatomy to cadaveric anatomy so that he or she will know all the structures in the US image than only the nerves.
• Hence learning will be shifted from pattern recognition to trace back and forth method. Delegate will trace the BP from root to branches.
• At different levels where to inject, what local anaesthetic, volume and concentration to be used and what block outcome I should expect.
• Hence concept of where we are blocking the BP (roots, Trunk, divisions, cords and braches) than relaying on surface landmarks like interscalene and supraclavicular will be introduced.
• Which level to be blocked for which surgery?
• What are the complications expected and their mechanism of happening?
• How to assess the diaphragmatic function?
• If it is affected what to do?

Teaching learning method

Small group teaching 5/ stations, volunteer demonstration, cadaver specimen discussion, Hands on injection at fresh cadavers, vedio demonstration.