Pediatric regional anesthesia: The appropriate materials

The importance of selecting approapriate devices (eg, needles, catheters, and nerve stimulators) to perform a regional block in children has long been underestimated. This attitude is no longer acceptable because it is now established that half the complications currently reported after performance of a regional block in children are related to the use of the wrong device. Specifically, devices are now available for virtually all types of regional block procedures and techniques of nerve/space location that do not depend on the cooperation of the patient have been fully evaluated in children and should be routinely used in pediatric anesthesia.