This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Nabil Elkassabany and Dr. Edward Mariano, focuses on Regional Anesthesia, with topics including: Current evidence related to regional analgesia and hip surgery; Updates on billing and coding and establishing an acute pain service in private practice; Establishing a home catheter program for orthopedic surgery in pediatric patients or more broadly: updates on regional anesthesia for pediatric orthopedic surgery; Enhanced recovery after shoulder arthroplasty; Perioperative management of patient on opioid agonist antagonist therapy; Outcome metrics to be considered for regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine; Updates on multimodal analgesia (intransal ketorolac, IV acetmenophen, newer NSAIDS) for orthopedic surgery; Updates in enhanced recovery pathway for knee replacement versus updates outpatient knee replacement; Updates on new technology for regional anesthesia (peripheral nerve stimulators and cryotherapy); and Regional anesthesia and analgesia for the poly trauma patients.
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Considering the high risk of potential exposure to respiratory droplets or aerosol from patients' airways, the frontline anesthesiologists set up a 16-member team in charge of out-of-OR airway management throughout the hospital.
is a commitment to quality clinical outcomes and patient safety.47 The authors anxiously await reliability and validity studies, which substantiate that participation in MOCA is equated with a clinically superior pediatric ...
Same Day Joint Replacement Surgery Patient Selection and Perioperative Management Catherine Vandepitte, MD, PhDa, Letitia Van Pachtenbeke, MDb, Imré Van Herreweghe, MD c, Rajnish K. Gupta, MD d, Nabil M. Elkassabany, MD, MSCE e,* ...
The team leader briefly asks everyone in the room to be silent and then explains the presumed diagnosis, ... and better teamwork.6 Direct patient care in an emergency takes precedence, so in most emergencies, there may not be enough ...
Carli F, Kehlet H, Baldini G, et al. Evidence basis for regional ... Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2017. p. 1–20. 38. Jung BF, Ahrendt GM, ... Tighe S, Greene MD, Rajadurai N. Paravertebral block.
The fresh perspective of two new lead editors—Drs. Ehab Farag and Loran Mounir-Soliman—personally selected by Dr. David Brown.
This book offers a detailed, stepwise approach to this technique, identifying pearls and pitfalls to ensure success. Topics are organized into four chapters.
... of target localization, many centers routinely use GA for DBS placement.16–18 Preoperative Evaluation Patients undergoing DBS surgery often are medically complex and present unusual challenges related to anesthesia (see Table 1).
In the framework of these advancements, this journal is composed of several articles that pertain to the perioperative management of the orthopedic patient. We discuss anesthesia and pain management topics ...