Orthopedics

Orthopedics Synopsis

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