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Nerve Blocks
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FREE TEACHING LIBRARY

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, explained

64 block pages with labelled illustrations, technique, drugs and evidence. Free for everyone.

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64block pages
6body regions
84labelled illustrations
£0to use, always

What's new

  • Learn

    Basics of ultrasound

    Five short chapters to read before your first block: principles, needling, the safe routine, identifying structures and local anaesthetics.

    Start the basics

  • POCUS

    Point-of-care ultrasound

    Airway, gastric, diaphragm, lung, DVT and focused cardiac scans, with illustrations and videos.

    Explore POCUS

  • Interactive

    Scan explorer

    Slide the probe along the brachial plexus, median, sciatic and femoral nerves and watch the scan change.

    Try the scan explorer

  • Quiz

    Test yourself on every page

    Each block, Basics and POCUS page ends with a quiz, including naming structures on the scan. Pass with 70% or more.

    Try a quiz

  • Certificate

    Your certificate of learning

    See the topics you have passed and print a certificate for your portfolio or appraisal.

    Open My learning

  • Share

    Share with your team

    WhatsApp, email, X and LinkedIn buttons on every teaching page make it easy to send a block to a colleague.

    Ultrasound in anaesthesia

  • Languages

    Now in Turkish and Greek

    The main pages are now in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Ukrainian, Turkish and Greek. Choose a flag at the top of any page.

  • Offline

    Read with no internet

    Save the whole library on your phone or computer and read it with no signal, in theatre or on the ward. When you're back online, it updates itself to the latest version.

  • Phone app

    Nerve Blocks on your phone

    Add Nerve Blocks to your home screen on Android or iPhone. It opens full screen like an app, with a menu for the block library, block finder and dose calculator.

Also new

  • Pelvis and perineum blocks

    A new region, including the sacral erector spinae plane block with figures from our 2026 review.

    See the pelvis and perineum blocks

  • Patient information leaflets

    Leaflets from the Royal College of Anaesthetists to share with patients.

    See the leaflets

  • Mix two local anaesthetics

    The dose calculator now checks a mixture of two drugs against each drug's maximum.

    Open the dose calculator

About us

Nerve Blocks is run by a group of regional anaesthesia enthusiasts together with the charity Academy for Anaesthesia Education. Our aim is simple: to raise the quality of regional anaesthesia education everywhere in the world.

More about us

Delegates and faculty in a group photo outside the course venue
The whole group, course day
A tutor at a needling station with delegates practising on phantoms
Needling station
Faculty teaching a small group at an ultrasound machine
Small-group teaching at the machine
Delegates watching a live scanning demonstration
Live scanning demonstration
A tutor guiding a delegate scanning a volunteer model
Hands-on scanning with a volunteer model
Three faculty members smiling at the course
Faculty
Two faculty members talking between sessions
Between sessions
Two colleagues at the course
Friends of the course

Upcoming events

SAT30JAN 2027
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Frimley ESRA World Day of Regional Anaesthesia

Post Graduate Centre, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley GU16 7UJ. Organised by Dr Madan Narayanan.

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ESRA members
£25
RA-UK members
£35
Non-members
£50
CPD
6 RCoA credits applied for
  • Book early to secure your place.
  • Celebrate ESRA World Day of Regional Anaesthesia with colleagues.
  • Member rates for ESRA and RA-UK members.
  • 6 RCoA CPD credits applied for.

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This page is for education. It does not replace supervised training, local guidelines or clinical judgement. Always check doses against your patient and your hospital's policies.