Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks

E M Louise Moran ,Catherine Njathi-Ori ,Clara Lobo ,Christian Egeler ,Lloyd Turbitt ,Eric S. Schwenk ,Margaretha B. Breebaart ,Edward R. Mariano ,Colin J. L. Mccartney ,Michèle Desmet ,Brendan Carvalho ,Sébastien Bloc ,Sina Grape ,Jeff L Xu ,Éric Albrecht ,Danielle Ludwin ,Monica W. Harbell ,Joseph M. Neal ,Geert‐Jan Van Geffen ,Sanjib Das Adhikary ,Brian D. O’donnell ,Rafael Blanco ,Teresa Parras ,Thomas Volk ,Kwesi Kwofie ,Philipp Lirk ,Başak Altıparmak ,Kariem El‐Boghdadly ,Hesham Elsharkawy ,Morné Wolmarans ,Amit Pawa ,Sanjay Sinha ,Ellen M. Soffin ,Jose Aguirre ,Margaret Holtz ,Jeff Gadsden ,James Stimpson ,Sandra L. Kopp ,Kamen Vlassakov ,Shalini Dhir ,Ki Jinn Chin ,N. Bedforth ,Ben Fox ,Maria Paz Sebastian ,Rebecca L. Johnson ,Graeme Mcleod ,Michael J. Barrington ,Vishal Uppal ,Peter Hebbard ,Paul D. Kessler ,Ban C. H. Tsui ,Anne Agur ,Nabil Elkassabany ,Alan Macfarlane ,Peter Merjavy ,Brian M. Ilfeld ,Vivian Ip ,Thomas Fichtner Bendtsen ,Steve Coppens ,Raymond Tang ,Linda Le-Wendling ,Jacques E. Chelly ,Mette Dam ,Barys Ihnatsenka ,Stuart A. Grant ,James Bowness ,Ahtsham U. Niazi ,Philip Peng ,Antoun Nader ,Philippe Gautier ,Nadia Hernandez ,Kris Vermeylen ,Axel R. Sauter ,Xavier Sala‐Blanch ,Carlo D. Franco ,Navdeep S Sidhu ,Karen Boretsky ,Carrie R. Guheen ,Stavros G. Memtsoudis ,Alwin Chuan ,I. Costache ,John G. Mcdonnell ,Bridget P. Pulos ,Athmaja Thottungal ,M. Oldman ,Alexandros Μakris ,Hari Kalagara ,Steven L. Orebaugh ,Serkan Tulgar ,Steven B. Porter ,David Burckett-St Laurent ,Rosemary Hogg ,Anahi Perlas ,Andrea Saporito

doi:10.1136/rapm-2023-104884

Abstract

BackgroundInconsistent nomenclature and anatomical descriptions of regional anesthetic techniques hinder scientific communication and engender confusion; this in turn has implications for research, education and clinical implementation of regional anesthesia. Having...

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