Mayo Clinic Analgesic Pathway describes a comprehensive multimodal approach to intraoperative regional anesthesia and postoperative analgesia.

Features:

• Provides guidance on the Mayo Clinic systematic approach to regional anesthesia and analgesia in patients undergoing total joint replacement
• Vividly illustrates a wide array of procedures-demonstrating the proper positioning of the practitioner and patient; methods for holding, advancing, and stabilizing catheter needles; techniques to insert the peripheral nerve catheter; and needle redirection cues
• Discusses anatomical landmarks for alternative sites of needle insertion
• Helps physicians dramatically reduce postoperative pain
• Outlines nursing management guidelines for peripheral nerve catheters proved effective at Mayo Clinic

Contents

• Mayo Clinic Total Joint Anesthesia and Analgesia Pathway
• Nursing Guidelines
• Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia in the Orthopedic Patient Receiving Thromboprophylaxis
• Management of Inpatient Peripheral Nerve Catheters
• Management of Ambulatory Peripheral Nerve Catheters
• Neural Anatomy
• Dermatomes and Osteotomes
• Techniques of Nerve Localization
• Selection of Local Anesthetic Agents
• Neurological Complications
• Sciatic Nerve Block
• Lumbar Plexus Block
• Femoral Nerve Block
• Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Block
• Saphenous Nerve Block
• Ankle Block

Index

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