Peripheral Nerve Anatomy & Regional Anaesthesia: A structured study guide for EDRA

A structured study guide written to the EDRA syllabus — 264 pagesMost textbooks tell you what a block covers. Far fewer tell you, systematically, what it doesn't — and that gap is where candidates lose marks in the viva and where patients wake up with pain nobody predicted.This guide is built the other way round. Every single block description ends with a mandatory section: Areas NOT anaesthetised.One template, never varied.All thirteen nerve chapters follow the identical seven-part structure: origin (roots → trunk → division → cord → terminal branch, given in full), course with sonoanatomy, motor innervation by compartment, functional actions, sensory territory, clinical relevance, and regional anaesthesia relevance — including which blocks reliably cover the nerve, which cover it inconsistently, and which miss it entirely.All block chapters follow the identical six-part structure: overview, ultrasound anatomy, nerves anaesthetised split into primary/secondary/inconsistent, motor effects, sensory effects, areas not anaesthetised.Because the template never changes, you stop re-learning how to read each chapter and start comparing across them — which is the skill the exam actually tests.What's insidePart I — Thirteen chapters covering every peripheral nerve you can be asked about: cervical plexus and the nerves of the neck, the brachial plexus collateral branches, musculocutaneous and axillary, median, ulnar, radial, the medial cutaneous and intercostobrachial nerves, thoracic and intercostal, lumbar plexus, sacral plexus, the terminal nerves of leg and foot, the cranial nerves that matter for airway and head-and-neck blocks, and the clinically relevant autonomic anatomy.Part II — The four plexuses as functional units, with full schematics of the brachial plexus from roots through to terminal branches and a map of what you are actually blocking at each approach.Part III — Twenty-five blocks across eight chapters: upper limb from interscalene to digital, shoulder and clavicle, chest wall and breast in current ASRA/ESRA nomenclature, abdominal wall including the full QL family, paravertebral and erector spinae, hip and thigh including PENG, knee to foot including iPACK and ankle, and head and neck.Parts IV & V — Master cross-reference tables (nerve→roots, nerve→motor, nerve→sensory, block→nerves, block→deficit, block→indication), the spared-territory table, complication quick-reference, rapid-fire viva questions, frequently confused pairs, common misconceptions, and mnemonics.Fully bookmarked and cross-linked: jump from the contents to any chapter or section.Who it's forEDRA Part I and Part II candidates. Anaesthesiology residents on a regional rotation. Anyone who can perform the blocks but wants the anatomy underneath them organised well enough to teach it.What it isn'tText and schematics only — no photographs or ultrasound images. It's a structural and anatomical reference to read alongside an atlas, not a replacement for one. Figures and guideline positions change; verify anything clinically consequential against primary sources before you act on it.

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