General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Regional block is a safe and, in our opinion, preferred technique for providing anesthesia for upper extremity vascular surgery. The venodilatation observed is augmented compared with that using a ...

The Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) fellowship program consists of twelve months of post-graduate training after successful completion of an accredited residency program in ...

I still remember when a patient woke up from hip surgery in tears—tears of relief. She had been terrified of waking up groggy ...

Research published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine suggests that using potent synthetic opioids like sufentanil and remifentanil during surgery is associated with a poorer overall ...

You’ll also take part in administering general and regional anesthesia, as you work one-on-one with a clinical preceptor. As a Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing student, you’ll have access to a ...

Conscious surgery is safer for heart or lung patients and the elderly as it rules out the side-effects of anesthesia, but won ...

You are your best advocate to ask if alternate anesthesia approaches can be used, such as the use of nerve blocks or regional anesthesia to reduce intraoperative and postoperative pain," Graber says.

Each year, SLU’s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care welcomes visiting medical students to our General Anesthesiology Rotation (AN-403), Pediatric Anesthesia Rotation (AN 404) and ...

general anesthesia, and regional anesthesia. Additional clinical subspecialty rotations provide anesthesia management experience for the obstetrical, pediatric, cardiac, and neurosurgical patients.