{"id":164,"date":"2014-10-30T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T08:13:36","slug":"interscalene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/science-education\/specialized-sections\/espa-pain-committee\/us-regional-anaesthesia\/upper-limb\/interscalene\/","title":{"rendered":"Interscalene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INTERSCALENE BLOCK<\/strong><br \/><em><strong>Author: Valeria Mossetti<br \/><\/strong><\/em><br \/>1. Indications<br \/>Interscalene block provides anaesthesia and analgesia for surgery on shoulder, distal<br \/>clavicle and proximal humerus.<\/p>\n<p>2. Contraindications<br \/>&#8211; Local infection<br \/>&#8211; This block should not be performed bilaterally because of the potentially<br \/>respiratory problems originating from the phrenic nerve block, almost always<br \/>present with this technique even with the ultrasound guide.<\/p>\n<p>3. Anatomy<br \/>The interscalene roots of the brachial plexus (C5, C6, C7) run in the interscalene<br \/>groove between the anterior and middle scalene muscles, which are located at the<br \/>lateral border of the clavicular origin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.<\/p>\n<p>4. Technique<br \/>The patient is in supine position, the head is slightly turned away from the side to be<br \/>blocked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/INTERSCALENE-BLOCK-ESPA.pdf\">Please click here to review the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERSCALENE BLOCKAuthor: Valeria Mossetti1. IndicationsInterscalene block provides anaesthesia and analgesia for surgery on shoulder, distalclavicle and proximal humerus. 2. Contraindications&#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/7146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euroespa.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}