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PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIOLOGY

Ultrasonography and Pediatric Caudals

From the Department of Anesthesiology, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Donald Schwartz, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut St., Springfield, MA 01199. Address e-mail to donald.schwartz{at}bhs.org.

Abstract

Ultrasound is an important tool for performing pediatric regional blocks, including caudal blocks. We present a case in which the availability of ultrasound allowed us to proceed with a successful caudal block which we otherwise might have abandoned in an infant with difficult anatomy.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999