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Updated: Jan 31 2018

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Pudendal Nerve Block
  • Clinically important landmark: ischial spine
    • a peripheral nerve block that provides local anesthesia over S2-S4 dermatomes that supply majority of perineum and over inferior quarter of vagina
    • does not block pain from superior birth canal (uterine cervix and superior vagina) so that mother is able to feel uterine contractions
    • injection is made where pudendal nerve crosses lateral aspect of sacrospinous ligament near its attachment to ischial spine
Appendix
  • Clinically important landmark: McBurney point
    • base of appendix lies deep to a point called McBurney point that lies 1/3 of the way along the oblique line that joins the right anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and umbilicus

Lumbar Puncture
  • Clinically important landmark: iliac crest
  • LP 
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