Legal Case of the Month
Legal Case of the Month: October 2009
A 42 year-old high earning medical professional that mostly works with his hand (he was a surgeon), and is also a very keen fly fisherman, developed a small rotator cuff tear that bothered him with fly-fishing. He sought the help of a famous orthopaedic surgeon in another state who could fix this tear arthroscopically.The anesthesia selected for this procedure was a continuous interscalene nerve block combined with light general anesthesia, although the patient expressed the doubt if he needed the continuous nerve block. In spite of that…
Legal Case of the Month: August 2009
A 40-year-old male was scheduled to undergo a right-sided thoracoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhydrosis. Following the induction of general anesthesia right-sided thoracic paravertebral blocks…
Legal Case of the Month – May 2009
A 25-year-old high-level female athlete dislocated her shoulder and required a Bankart Stabilization procedure of her left shoulder. The anesthetic technique selected for the surgery was a single injection cervical paravertebral block combined with general anesthesia.
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