Atlas of Sonoanatomy for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2018

This Atlas of Sonoanatomy for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is intended to illustrate the aspects of sonography and anatomy that are important in the performance of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for acute and chronic pain medicine. The use of ultrasound has increased exponentially in the area of regional anesthesia and pain medicine in the last decade. During this time of evolution, learning sonoanatomy was hampered with the need to refer to various resources for the technical aspects of machine optimization, correlating sonoanatomy with gross anatomy and other imaging modalities and discovering the ergonomic aspects of imaging and intervention. For regional anesthesia, transitioning from landmark-based techniques for nerve blocks to real-time ultrasound image guided nerve blocks required the development of the ability to visualize and understand the cross-sectional anatomy of the area of interest outside the traditional transverse, sagittal and coronal axis views presented by current modalities such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

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