Head & Neck

While much of this site focuses on the use of ultrasound, many of the H&N blocks can be done via landmark-based regional techniques that are simple, safe, and effective. While they only account for around 5% of all pediatric blocks, H&N blocks provide a variety of options for targeted interventions.

Adapted from “Walker, B.J., Long, J.B., Sathyamoorthy, M., Birstler, J., Wolf, C., Bosenberg, A.T., Flack, S.H., Krane, E.J., Sethna, N.F., Suresh, S. and Taenzer, A.H., 2018. Complications in pediatric regional anesthesia: an analysis of more than 100,000 blocks from the pediatric regional anesthesia network. Anesthesiology, 129(4), pp.721-732.”