A Heat Map of Superior Cervical Ganglion Location Relative to the Common Carotid Artery Bifurcation

• DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31823b676d
• Publication Date: 2011-11-22T10:37:28Z
• Authors: Jonathan J. Wisco; M. Elena Stark; Ilan Safir; Siamak Rahman
• Keywords: Superior cervical ganglion; Cadaveric spasm; Cervical ganglia

Determining the superior cervical ganglion's precise anatomical location for local anesthetic block, when stellate block is not feasible or contraindicated, difficult.We dissected ganglion in 60 embalmed cadaveric specimens. Multiple regressions determined whether subject characteristics predicted distance between and common carotid artery bifurcation dimensional width area. Based on these regressions, we mapped using a pseudocolor statistical heat map.The model significantly ganglion-common (P = 0.01), 0.02).This study that good landmark localizing block.