Anaes Vivas · Acute pain & multimodal analgesia
Equipment viva — the ultrasound for the fascial-plane blocks
An equipment viva on the US-guided TAP — the probe (the linear high-frequency); the position (the lateral abdominal wall); the layers (the external oblique, the internal oblique, the transversus abdominis); the target (the plane between the IO and the TA); the local anaesthetic spread.
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Prompt
A portable ultrasound machine with the linear probe. Describe its use for the TAP block.
Stimulus
A portable ultrasound with the linear high-frequency probe. Describe its use for the TAP block.
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- [1]Yuan FL, et al. Advances in US-guided fascial plane blocks. J Invest Surg, 2026.PMID 42262005
- [42262006]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.