Open AccessStellate Ganglion Block
Author(s) -
Harold Carron,
Roger W. Litwiller
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/00000539-197509000-00002
Subject(s) - medicine , stellate ganglion , anesthesia , block (permutation group theory) , local anesthetic , reflex , brachial plexus block , brachial plexus , geometry , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology
A modified low-dose paratracheal approach to stellate ganglion block at the C6 level prevents the possible complications of subarachnoid introduction of large quantities of local anesthetic, brachial plexus block, and toxic reaction to local anesthetics. It is a technically simple procedure with readily identifiable landmarks and can be performed on an outpatient basis with short recovery periods. Successful block can be readily evaluated. It is emphasized that a series of blocks is required to "disorganize" the reflex activity triggered in the internuncial pools of the spinal cord as well as in the sympathetic ganglia themselves.