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Regional Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy

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If there is one set of regional block that an anesthesiologist should master, it is airway block. Even anesthesiologists who prefer to use general anesthesia for most of their cases are faced with the need to provide airway blocks before anesthetic induction in patients who may have airway compromise, trauma to the upper airway, or unstable cervical vertebrae.

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  1. Director of Pain Management Centre DGS – Cologne – Huerth, Luxemburger Str. 323-325, 50354, Cologne – Hürth, Germany

    Danilo Jankovic MD

  2. Partner Emeritus, Southern California, Permanente Medical Group, 21131 E.Lariat Court, Walnut, CA, 91789, USA

    Peter Cheng MD

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Jankovic, D., Cheng, P. (2015). Airway. In: Regional Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05131-4_8

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