Performance Accuracy of Hand-on-needle versus Hand-onsyringe Technique for Ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia Simulation for Emergency Medicine Residents

Introduction: Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks (UGNB) are increasingly used in emergency care. The hand-on-syringe (HS) needle technique is ideally suited to the emergency department setting because it allows a single operator to perform the block without assistance. The HS technique is assumed to...

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Main Authors: Brian Johnson, Andrew Herring, Michael Stone, Arun Nagdev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2014-09-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w46537s