Category Archives: Regional Anaesthesia

By Archit Vora, Zheng Cheng Zhu Key reference: Chua MJ, Lersch F, Chua AWY, Kumar CM, Eke T. Sub-Tenon’s anaesthesia for modern eye surgery-clinicians’ perspective, 30 years after re-introduction. Eye (Lond). 2021;35(5):1295-1304. doi:10.1038/s41433-021-01412-5 Demonstration of sub-Tenon block can be found on ABCs of Anaesthesia Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_bxA9GiGNs Quick Summary Contemporary ophthalmic surgeries are increasingly being […]

By Dr. Anei Ochan-Thou, Dr. Zheng Cheng Zhu, Dr. Nicola Wevling, Dr. Lahiru Amaratunge.   In our last article, we were tangled up in the brachial plexus. This time, we are looking at the lumbosacral plexus, a close cousin of the brachial plexus. In a similar vein, the lumbosacral plexus provides motor and sensory supply […]

By Anei Ochan-Thou, Zheng Cheng Zhu, Lahiru Amaratunge The brachial plexus. The harbinger of nightmares for all medical students (and junior doctors alike) For me, I found it hard to conceptualise this phenomenally difficult yet important part of upper limb anatomy. Like many things in anatomy, the more practice and revision that is done, the […]