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Quadratus Lumborum Blocks

Roisın Nee†1 , John McDonnell2 1

Regional Fellow, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland 2

Consultant Anaesthetist, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland

Edited by: Dr. Su Cheen Ng, University College Hospital London, UK Dr. Gillian Foxall, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK

† Corresponding author e-mail: roisin_nee@yahoo.co.uk

Published September 29, 2020

Abstract

Quadratus lumborum blocks (QLB) offer adjuvant analgesia for multiple surgeries including abdominal, orthopaedic, gynaecology and urology. QLB is a variation on a transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block which is performed with a USS using the curvilinear probe. There are 4 approaches to the QLB.

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