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ISRN Anesthesiology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 421505, 10 pages
doi:10.5402/2011/421505
Review Article

The Loss of Resistance Nerve Blocks

Shiv Kumar Singh1 and S. M. Gulyam Kuruba1,2

1Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, 11th Floor Prescot street, Liverpool L7 8XP, UK
2Mersey Deanery, Summers Road, Liverpool L3 4BL, UK

Received 10 August 2011; Accepted 15 September 2011

Academic Editor: A. Mizutani

Copyright © 2011 Shiv Kumar Singh and S. M. Gulyam Kuruba. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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