Regional and Neuraxial Anaesthesia

Previous CRQ questions relating to regional anaesthesia have primarily been concerned with wrong-sided blocks, which featured in both 2017 and 2019.

More recently there were CRQs on brachial plexus blocks (September 2022) and on spinal anaesthesia for day surgery (March 2023).

• General
• Advantages and disadvantages of regional anaesthesia
• Adjuncts in regional anaesthesia
• Complications of regional anaesthesia
• Ultrasound in regional anaesthesia
• RA in the anticoagulated patient
• RA in the diabetic patient


• Performance
• Upper limb blocks
• Brachial plexus blocks
• Forearm block


• Lower limb blocks
• Lumbar plexus block
• Femoral nerve block
• Fascia iliaca block
• Sciatic nerve block
• Ankle blocks


• Truncal blocks
• Cervical plexus
• Stellate ganglion block


• Intercostal nerve block
• Paravertebral block
• Erector spinae block


• Transversus abdominis plane block
• Ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric block
• Coeliac plexus block


• Neuraxial anaesthesia
• Caudal epidural (from the paediatric regional anaesthesia section)
• Epidural analgesia
• Spinal anaesthesia