This book is aptly named. It is about practical considerations faced by anaesthetists who wish to make regional blocks an ingredient of their anaesthetic cocktails. Various authors (mostly Scots) whose opinions differ as much as their literary styles discuss which block to select, and why, what supplementary anaesthesia to use, and how these combinations can be successfully administered for the common surgical schedules. Generally the editors have achieved their aims. Questions which arise daily in clinical practice are addressed in a way that none of the current excellent texts on regional techniques does. This book does
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