Acute Pain Service (Regional Anesthesia) is a growing field within Anesthesiology. In this subspecialty, we find ways to provide surgical anesthesia to parts of the body that may help avoid general anesthesia during a surgery or provide analgesia post-operatively.
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As Anesthesiologists, post-operative pain control is a high priority for our perioperative goals. It is our job to create the best treatment plan curated for the specific patient and procedure involved. [Read more]
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This will provide an overview of the brachial plexus - it’s specific anatomy and how we can utilize various segments of the plexus to provide analgesia to specific areas in the upper extremity. [Read more]
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This post discusses multiple options for analgesia that can be used to help reduce relying solely on one mechanism to control post-operative pain, such as with opiates. [Read more]
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A review of terminology, types of opiates, routes of administration, and effects on organ systems and specific receptors. [Read more]
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This post covers the history of local anesthetics, their mechanism of action, and a review of their properties, additives, and toxicity. [Read more]