Fascial plane blocks in regional anaesthesia: how problematic is simplification?

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¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and General Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: peter.marhofer@meduniwien.ac.at.
² Department of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy, Gottfried Schatz Research Centre, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
³ Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

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Peter Marhofer et al. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Nov.

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. 2020 Nov;125(5):649-651.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.013. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and General Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: peter.marhofer@meduniwien.ac.at.
² Department of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy, Gottfried Schatz Research Centre, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
³ Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

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Keywords: anatomy; facial plane block; local anaesthesia; nerve block; regional anaesthesia.

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