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Archive > May, 2009 Vol. X, No. 5

New Tools and Techniques for Regional Anesthesia

Advances that promise to improve the ease of block performance, block success rates and complications.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Anesthesiologist Gregg Melton, MD, calls his introduction to ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks an awakening, a turning point in his career. "I'm a convert to ultrasound completely," says Dr. Melton, the medical director of the Slocum Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Eugene, Ore. "I'm like a born-again Christian."

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