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Outpatient shoulder and elbow replacement surgery has been practiced since the early 1990’s. Now, there is a big push for outpatient total joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee as well. Because the patients need their lower extremities to ambulate, this pose some unique and complicated problems. This is the protocol used by the University of Florida orthopaedic surgeons to manage these.

Very often nurses, patients, physical and occupational therapists and other healthcare professional, or even medical device manufacturers and their representatives, do not really fully understand what continuous peripheral nerve blocks are, what the rationale is for sending patients home with such CPNBs, and, finally, what the potential problems could be. This series deals with it, and this third tutorial explains what can go wrong with CPNBs.

Very often nurses, patients, physical and occupational therapists and other healthcare professional, or even medical device manufacturers and their representatives, do not really fully understand what continuous peripheral nerve blocks are, what the rationale is for sending patients home with such CPNBs, and, finally, what the potential problems could be. This series deals with it, and this second tutorial explains the rational use of CPNBs at the patient’s home.

Very often nurses, patients, physical and occupational therapists and other healthcare professional, or even medical device manufacturers and their representatives, do not really fully understand what continuous peripheral nerve blocks are, what the rationale is for sending patients home with such CPNBs, and, finally, what the potential problems could be. This series deals with it, and this first tutorial explains what CPNBs are.

It is no secret that there is a world-wide opioid addiction and abuse crisis upon us. A large percentage of these patients stay on opioids after the acute phase of their pain has passed. Dr. Michael Kent with this video tutorial brings us a scholarly tutorial on persistent postsurgical opioid use. The presentation is just over 20 minutes long, but very well worth the time watching it.

After 45 years of practice, of which the last quarter century was practicing acute and peri-operative pain medicine, Professor André Boezaart teamed up with renowned shoulder surgeon Tom Wright and produced these unique insights into the rational use and pitfalls of regional anesthesia for acute pain management. This article was published in the December 2017 issue of the journal Techniques in Orthopaedics.

Drs. Boezaart and Zasimovich wrote this paper recently for journal Techniques in Orthopaedics and explain their views on why continuous peripheral nerve blocks fail. Secondary block failure numbers increased dramatically over the past number of years, which led to a decrease of the popularity of CPNBs amongst surgeons. This paper addresses that issue.

This is a video production provided by Dr. Michael Kent of Duke University that gives us some insight into why continuous peripheral nerve blocks fail. Secondary block failure numbers increased dramatically over the past number of years, which led to a decrease of the popularity of CPNBs amongst surgeons. This paper addresses that issue.

When The Joint Commission visited the University of Florida during 2016, they were impressed by the mature and functional Acute Pain Service at this institution. They requested that the model that they used be written up and placed on their website in the Library of Best Practices. Not everybody has access to this Library, so we place the manuscript as it was submitted here for members of RAEducation.com to have insight into.

Dr. Linda Le-Wendling and her colleagues wrote this paper on the goals and objectives to optimize the value of an acute pain service. Kind of the Industrial Engineering approach to it, written by anesthesiologists with vast experience with this.