new paper by Dr Jordan and others....about the scalene block and surgical outcomes.


here is the link

Ultrasound Evaluation

anyone who is a regular patient of Dr Jordan will surely recognize the questionaire at the end of the paper

Johannakat, thanks for this. here is another paper for the univ MN ultrasound. I don't know if you can tell by purusing, but I wonder if you think the tests are very similar? Did they have you turn your head in your study? IN this one I sat up and just raised the arm out and up to various degrees. They look at your subclavian artery and vein with your arm in various positions. Also the tech watches as you raise and lower the arm. They can't see nerves or lymph flow so it is limited only to blood and I suspect that it therefore cannot show neuro TOS but I don't know that for fact. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had this study or has heard about it.

http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/158/3/623

Melissa:
dr jordan and ahn's sclene block is described under "methods"