Journal Articles
Vital Signs – Pain Often Lasts Long After Breast Cancer Surgery, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
From the home page of the New York Times. A quick read on a topic of great importance for breast cancer survivors. Vital Signs – Pain Often Lasts Long After Breast Cancer Surgery, Study Finds – NYTimes.com.
ROARing about Complications
How do we report complications stemming from the administration and management of regional anesthetics? Once reported, how should we categorize them? What about advanced decision-support to guide local practices?
Recently, Buckenmaier et al have recently published a superb system for cataloguing complications from regional anesthesia. In this series, they reported an overall morbidity rate of 9.5% [...]
Delayed onset quadriparesis and bilateral ptosis following an interscalene block- Case discussion week of 0ct 5th 2009
Interesting case report published recently in Anesthesia and Analgesia.
A nerve stimulator guided interscalene nerve block was placed for rotator cuff repair. Patient underwent an uneventful general anesthetic in the sitting position for the surgical procedure. MAP was between 60-79 during the case.
Two hours after surgery the patient was found to have weakness in [...]
Neuraxial analgesia for hepatic surgery-Case discussion week of 8/03/09
45 yr old male presents for a partial liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. He is on chronic opiod medications for low back pain and is a smoker with mild COPD. He had a Rt hemicolectomy for adenocarcinoma performed a year ago without any complications, however he reported significant post operative pain despite being on a [...]
Retroperitoneal Hematoma – Case Discussion for the Week of July 20, 2009
This week we will be presenting a complication published recently in the BJA.
A patient developed a retroperitoneal hematoma following the placement of a a “continuous psoas compartment block”.
The case highlights certain practices which we do not concur with here at the Division of Acute Pain Medicine at the University of Florida.
Keeping in [...]
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