This issue brings the anesthesiologist up to date on current essential topics in regional analgesia and acute pain management, including the latest state-of-the-art techniques and drugs. Subjects covered include prevention and treatment of local anesthetic systemic and neurotoxicity; complications of RA and pain management (medicolegal issues including anticoagulation, infection, etc.); assessment and treatment of post block neurologic injury (history, physical, investigations, EMG, NCS); new ultrasound guided techniques for peripheral nerve blocks and evidence based outcome review; emerging techniques and drugs for neuraxial and paravertebral blocks; local infiltration analgesia (for a variety of surgical procedures, wound infusions, infusion devices); continuous PNB in hospital and at home; recent advances in multimodal analgesia (new drugs & strategies, such as capsaisin, long acting opioid and local anesthetics); challenges in acute pain management (including the opioid tolerant patient, patients with comorbidities such as MS, DM and renal failure); economics and practice management issues associated with acute pain management; pediatric pain management; new concepts of acute pain management (including strategies to prevent chronic pain, opioid induced hyperalgesia, and more).
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface: Regional Analgesia and Acute Pain Management: Major Leaps in Small Steps? - p. 7 8. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia for Peripheral Nerve Blocks: An Evidence-Based Outcome Review - p. 8 9. Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Hospital and at Home - p. 15 10. Economics and Practice Management Issues Associated With Acute Pain Management - p. 27 11. Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity: Prevention and Treatment - p. 39 12. Assessment and Treatment of Postblock Neurologic Injury - p. 46 13. Complications of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management - p. 52 14. Unintentional Subdural Injection: A Complication of Neuraxial Anesthesia/Analgesia - p. 66 15. Challenges in Acute Pain Management - p. 71 16. New Concepts in Acute Pain Management: Strategies to Prevent Chronic Postsurgical Pain, Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia, and Outcome Measures - p. 82 17. Local Infiltration Analgesia - p. 91 18. Index - p. 97
This issue brings the anesthesiologist up to date on current essential topics in regional analgesia and acute pain management, including the latest state-of-the-art techniques and drugs. Subjects covered include prevention and treatment of local anesthetic systemic and neurotoxicity; complications of RA and pain management (medicolegal issues including anticoagulation, infection, etc.); assessment and treatment of post block neurologic injury (history, physical, investigations, EMG, NCS); new ultrasound guided techniques for peripheral nerve blocks and evidence based outcome review; emerging techniques and drugs for neuraxial and paravertebral blocks; local infiltration analgesia (for a variety of surgical procedures, wound infusions, infusion devices); continuous PNB in hospital and at home; recent advances in multimodal analgesia (new drugs & strategies, such as capsaisin, long acting opioid and local anesthetics); challenges in acute pain management (including the opioid tolerant patient, patients with comorbidities such as MS, DM and renal failure); economics and practice management issues associated with acute pain management; pediatric pain management; new concepts of acute pain management (including strategies to prevent chronic pain, opioid induced hyperalgesia, and more).
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface: Regional Analgesia and Acute Pain Management: Major Leaps in Small Steps? - p. 7 8. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia for Peripheral Nerve Blocks: An Evidence-Based Outcome Review - p. 8 9. Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Hospital and at Home - p. 15 10. Economics and Practice Management Issues Associated With Acute Pain Management - p. 27 11. Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity: Prevention and Treatment - p. 39 12. Assessment and Treatment of Postblock Neurologic Injury - p. 46 13. Complications of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management - p. 52 14. Unintentional Subdural Injection: A Complication of Neuraxial Anesthesia/Analgesia - p. 66 15. Challenges in Acute Pain Management - p. 71 16. New Concepts in Acute Pain Management: Strategies to Prevent Chronic Postsurgical Pain, Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia, and Outcome Measures - p. 82 17. Local Infiltration Analgesia - p. 91 18. Index - p. 97
