Main description:

Reflecting the rapid growth of pain medicine and of ultrasound as a tool, this Third Edition is more comprehensive and inclusive than previous editions and features additional pages, tables, diagrams, and color illustrations. In addition to the discipline of Anesthesiology, other specialists, who use local and regional anesthesia techniques, (surgeons, ophthalmologists, emergency medicine physicians and dentists), have also contributed to this edition of the book. Complications of Regional Anesthesia, with its newly added subtitle, Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia, stresses the relatively new emphasis and importance on safety and prevention and broadens the discussion to include the practice and administration of not just regional but also local anesthesia.

Each chapter has been thoroughly revised, brought up-to-date, and features full color images. Individual chapters cover complications associated with specific nerve blocks; IV and catheter methods; obstetric regional anesthesia; pediatric regional anesthesia; ophthalmic regional anesthesia; and treatment of acute and chronic pain.

Contents:

Complication of Regional Anesthesia: Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia, 3rd edition

Editors: Brendan T. Finucane and Ban C.H. Tsui

Table of Contents

Section I. General Considerations

1. The History of Local and Regional Anesthesia
Brendan T. Finucane

2. Regional Anesthesia Safety
John W.R. McIntyre* and Brendan T. Finucane

3. Local Anesthetic Toxicity: Prevention and Management
Derek Dillane

4. Outcome Studies Comparing Regional and General Anesthesia
Brian O'Donnell and Michael O'Sullivan

Section II. Special Considerations <5. Nerve Injury Resulting from Intraneural Injection When Performing Peripheral Nerve Block
Rakesh V. Sondekoppam and Ban C.H. Tsui

6. Regional Anesthesia in the Presence of Neurological Disease
John Shepler, Andrea Kattula, and George Arndt

7. Evaluation of Neurologic Injury Following Regional Anesthesia
Quinn Hogan, Keith McCollister, Matthew Harmelink, Laura Kohl, and Michael Collins

8. Regional Anesthesia and Anticoagulation
Robert B. Bolash and Richard W. Rosenquist

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9. Infection in Association with Local and Regional Anesthesia

Terese T. Horlocker, Denise J. Wedel, and Adam D. Niesen

10. Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks Safe Practice and Management
Geert-Jan van Geffen and Joergen Bruhn

Section III. Specific Regional Blocks-Safe Practice and Management of Adverse Events

11. Complications of Regional Anesthesia: Upper and Lower Extremity Blockade
Stephen Choi, Patrick B.Y. Wong, Kristen Gadbois and Colin J.L. McCartney

12. Complications of Thoracic Wall Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia
Christine Lee and F. Michael Ferrante

13. Abdominal Wall Blocks: Safe Practice and Management of Adverse Events
James D. Griffiths and Peter D. Hebbard

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14. Epidural Blockade: Safe Practice and Management of Adverse Events
Steven J. Gaff

15. Spinal Anesthesia: Safe Practice and Management of Adverse Events
Pekka Tarkkila

Section IV. Specific Patient Populations-Safe Practice and Management of Adverse events

16. Complications of Regional Anesthesia in Chronic Pain Therapy
David Flamer, Rachael Seib, and Philip W.H. Peng

17. Local and Regional Anesthesia in the Elderly

Ferrante S. Gragasin and Ban C.H. Tsui

18. Local and Regional Analgesia for Labor and Delivery
Yoo Kuen Chan and Peng Chong Tan

19. Local and Regional Anesthesia in Obese Patients

Hendrikus J.M. Lemmens

20. Local and Regional Anesthesia in Pediatrics

Belen De Jose Maria

Section V. Special Environments: Safe Practice and Management of Adverse Events

21. Local and Regional Anesthesia in Dental and Oral Surgery

Stanley F. Malamed, Kenneth L. Reed, Amanda Okundaye, and Andrea Fonner

22. Local and Regional Anesthesia in the Emergency Room
Andrew A. Herring

23. Recognizing and Mitigating Risk of Ophthalmic Regional Anesthesia
Brad Wakeman, Robert William Andrew Machuk, Rizwan Somani, Dean Y. Mah, and Ian M. MacDonald

24. Local Infiltration Analgesia for Orthopedic Joint Surgery
Sugantha Ganapathy, James L. Howard, and Rakesh V. Sondekoppam

25. Local and Regional Anesthesia in Plastic Surgery: Safety Considerations and Management

John Mesa, Don Lalonde, and Luis O. Vasconez

Section VI. Morbidity Studies: International Perspective

26. Development and Methodology of a Registry of Regional Anesthesia
Michael J. Barrington

27. Australia: Results of a Multi-Center Registry of Regional Anesthesia
Michael J. Barrington

28. Canada: Medical Legal Aspects of Regional Anesthesia Practice
Kari G. Smedstad and Brendan T. Finucane<

29. France: Regional Anesthesia Morbidity Study
Dan Benhamou

30. Nordic Countries: Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia
Mikko T. Pitkanen

31. United Kingdom: Recent Advances in the Safety and Prevention of Regional Anesthesia Complications
Graeme A. McLeod

32. United States: Complications Associated with Regional Anesthesia (An American Society of Anesthesiologists' Closed Claims Analysis)
Christopher Kent, Karen L. Posner, Lorri A. Lee, and Karen B. Domino

33. United States: Chronic Pain Management (American Society of Anesthesiologists' Closed Claims Project)<

Albert H. Santora

Section VII. Medical Legal Aspects

34. Medical Legal Aspects of Regional Anesthesia: Physician Perspective
Albert H. Santora

35. Medical Legal Aspects of Regional Anesthesia: Legal Perspective
Bridgette Toy-Cronin and Kelly Byrne