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5 Minute Sono – Suprainguinal Fascia Iliaca Block (SIFI)

In this Five Minute Sono video, we show you how to perform the suprainguinal fascia iliaca block (SIFI). This block provides a more reliable anesthesia for the femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous, and obturator nerves, and is useful for hip fractures, bony injuries from the acetabulum to the knee, and large anterior thigh lacerations or burns.

Peer reviewed by Jacob Avila, MD on May 30, 2021

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Kat Vlasica, MD
Dr Katherine Vlasica is a NJ Emergency Medicine physician at Saint Joseph’s Health with a passion for EM Pain Management. She completed medical school at the New York College of Emergency Medicine, and became a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and EMS Medical Director at SUNY Downstate at Long Island College of Medicine. She moved from Brooklyn to her current clinical home at Saint Josephs, where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at RowanSOM and Medical Director of EM Pain Management. She is busy expanding our nationally renowned ALTO program into the world of regional anesthesia, and takes any opportunity to teach pain management interventions at a local and international level. Dr Vlasica is the Chair elect of the ACEP Pain and Addiction Care in the ED accreditation program and looks forward to making Regional Anesthesia a nationwide standard in EM education.

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