Essentials of Regional Anesthesia

The management of pain can often be achieved by medications, physical therapies, or by various procedural techniques that have evolved in recent decades. With the trend towards more outpatient surgeries and less invasive surgeries to decrease perioperative risk, perioperative time, and costs, the practice of anesthesia is evolving to utilize regional anesthesia techniques both for inpatients and outpatients. Regional anesthesia is being performed for outpatient surgeries, obstetric anesthesia, trauma, chronic pain states, and for acute post-operative pain management.  Therefore, it is paramount for physicians and nurses practicing anesthesia to understand the essentials of regional anesthesia, its evolving techniques, and appropriate utilization of modern equipment and technology to provide care safely.

Essentials of Regional Anesthesia, Second edition, is a concise, up-to-date, evidence-based handbook that enables every resident, physician and nurse to understand the basics of regional anesthesia and the standard of care guidelines for the practice of regional anesthesia in a comprehensive fashion. This new edition includes:

·         Updated and new chapters on Ambulatory, Critical Care, and Obstetrics topics

·         Full color, clear, detailed, anatomic drawings

·         Clinically relevant, practical aspects of regional anesthesia

·         International contributing authors who are experts in their field

·         Latest ultrasound techniques and images

Review of 1^st edition:

Table of Contents

Part I General Principles of Regional Anesthesia Practice

Chapter 1 General Considerations for Regional Anesthesia Practice

Svetla Kurteva, Iyabo Olubunmi Muse and Karina Gritsenko

Chapter 2 Economic Impact, Cost, and Reimbursement Issues 

Deepti Agarwal and Maunak V. Rana

Chapter3 Training and Education of a Physician for Regional Anesthesia

Chris M. Farlinger and Jonathan C. Beathe

Part II Basics and Clinical Practice in Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 4 The Anatomy of Pain and Its Implications for Regional Anesthesiology Practice

Harry J. Gould III and Alan David Kaye

Chapter 5 Local Anesthetics and Adjuvants

Francesco Vetri, Jose A. Aguirre, Effrossyni G. Votta-Velis and Alain Borgeat

Chapter 6 Monitoring and Sedation in Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 7 Anticoagulation and Regional Anesthesia Concerns

Alan David Kaye, Thomas Ngo Trang, Elyse M. Cornett, Ken Philip Ehrhardt, Jr., Rinoo Shah

Chapter 8 Regional Anesthesia in the Community Practice Setting

Joseph Marino and Brian E. Harrington

Part III Ultrasound-Assisted Nerve Blocks

Chapter 9 Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blockade

Alan Bielsky and David M. Polaner

Part IV Continuous Regional Analgesia and Techniques for Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 10 Equipment and Clinical Practice: Aids to Localization of Peripheral Nerves

Bryan Tischenkel, Beverly Pearce-Smith, Johnny K. Lee and Karina Gritsenko

Chapter 11 Neuraxial Blockade: Subarachnoid Anesthesia

Maria Teresa Gudin, Ramón López-Vicente, Esperanza Ortigosa, María Del Mar Caro Cascante, Carmen Garcia Molina, Sonia Martin

Chapter 12 Neuraxial Blockade: Epidural Anesthesia

Sreekumar Kunnumpurath, Suneil Ramessur, Adam Fendius, Nalini Vadivelu, Jasmina Perinpanayagam

Chapter 13 Peripheral Nerve Blocks for the Lower Extremity

Sylvia H. Wilson and Anna Uskova

Chapter 14 Regional and Topical Anesthesia for Endotracheal Intubation

Chapter 15 Regional Anesthetic Techniques for the Pediatric Patient

Vaughn E. Nossaman and Bobby D. Nossaman

Chapter 16 Head and Neck Regional Anesthesia

Desiree Persaud and Sébastien Garneau

Chapter 17 Upper Extremity Nerve Blocks

De QH Tran, Maria Francisca Elgueta Le-Beuffe and Juan Francisco Asenjo

Chapter 18 Local Anesthesia of the Masticatory Region

Henry A. Gremillion, Christopher J. Spencer, Alex D. Ehrlich, and Janice A. Townsend

Chapter 19 Regional Anesthetic Techniques for Foot Surgery

Rick C. Chen and Peter A. Blume

Chapter 20 Selective Regional Anesthesia Options in Surgical Subspecialties

Hong Yan, Alan David Kaye and Henry Liu

Chapter 21 Obstetric Anesthesiology

Debbie Chandler, Ray Paschall, Leslie Robichaux, Burton Beakley, Elyse M. Cornett, Alan David Kaye

Chapter 22 Acute Situations: Trauma in Surgical Specialties

Sandra Giannone, Daniela Ghisi, Andrea Fanelli, Carl C. Rest

Chapter 23 Preemptive Analgesia, Regional Anesthesia and Prevention of Chronic Postoperative Pain

Erik M. Helander, Jonathan P. Eskander, Christina L. Juneau, Matthew B. Novitch, Amit Prabhakar, Amy M. DeKerlegand, Elyse M. Cornett, Alan David Kaye

Chapter 24 Transverse Abdominal Plane, Pectoral and Serratus Plane, and Quadratus Lumborum Blocks

Rita Merman, Vladislav Shick and Vikram Bhasin

Part V Regional Anesthesia and Subspecialties

Chapter 25 Outpatient Surgery

Kelly R. Mercer

Chapter 26 Regional Anesthesia in the Critical Care Setting

Amir O. Elhassan, Harish Bangalore Siddaiah, Brendon M. Hart, Mark Ryan Jones, Cory A. Roberts, Maura Elise Jones, Alan David Kaye

Chapter 27 Regional Anesthesia for Chronic Pain

Neil Malhotra, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Effrossyni G. Votta-Velis, Alain Borgeat

Chapter 28 Regional Anesthesia Considerations for Chronic Non-cancer Pain

Lauren K. Eng, Lindsey K. Okada and Matthew R. Eng

Chapter 29 Malignant Pain

Kenneth D. Candido and Teresa M. Kusper

Chapter 30 Regional Anesthesia and Cardiovascular Disease

Veerandra Koyyalamudi, Lien Tran, Camellia D. Asgarian, Molly Kraus, Zacherie Conover, Jeremy Alvrod, Elyse M. Cornett, Alan David Kaye

Chapter 31 Regional Anesthesia in the Patient with Preexisting Neurological Disease

Rafael Justiz and Alexander F. Bautista

Chapter 32 Sympathetic Blockade

Miles Day, Rafael Justiz, Audra Day and Maxim S. Eckmann

Part VII Outcomes Studies in Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 33 Outcome Studies and Infection Control in Regional Anesthesia

Joshua Ryan Dooley and Stuart Alan Grant 

Chapter 34 Acute Pain Management

Alan David Kaye, Brooke V. Towne, Vibhav B. Reddy, Michael F. Kelley, Jr., Si Zhang, Lien Tran, Elyse M. Cornett, Ralf E. Gebhard

Chapter 35 Regional Anesthesia for Chronic Disease States

Siamak Rahman and Parisa Partownavid

Chapter 36 Intravenous Regional Anesthesia

Lindsey Vokach-Brodsky, Vibhav B. Reddy, Kathryn Teixeira, Elyse M. Cornett, Julie Gayle, Patricia B. Sutker, Alan David Kaye

Chapter 37 Pediatric Pain

Lori-Ann Oliver, Jodi-Ann Oliver, Hassan Rayaz and J. Lance Licthor

Part VIII Future Trends in Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 38 Future Trends in Equipment 

Neda Sadeghi and Jeff Gadsden

Chapter 39 Future Trends in Regional Anesthesia Techniques

Amanda Kumar and Jeff Gadsden

Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Director of Pain Services
University Hospital and Ochsner Kenner Hospital
New Orleans, LA   70112    USA

Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Director, Hospital Procedural Sedation Management and Safety
Co-Director, Center for Perioperative Management and Medical Informatics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA   02115    USA

Nalini Vadivelu, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT   06510    USA