The Official Journal of the Turkish Society of Algology
ISSN 1300-0012 E-ISSN 2458-9446

Yavuz Gürkan, Çiğdem Nur Ohtaroğlu

Department Of Anesthesiology And Reanimation, Kocaeli Üniversity, Kocaeli, Turkey

Keywords: sciatic block, figure of four position, ''coin sign''

Abstract

Ultrasound guidance during peripheral nerve block is a revolutionary approach in clinical practice. For a successful block, local anesthetics(LA) should surround the nerve circumferentially. Circumferential distrubution of local anesthetic is discribed as ''coin sign'' view which may predict block success of sciatic nerve.