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Regional Anesthesia Techniques

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Regional anesthesia (RA) techniques, especially peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) and central neuraxial anesthesia/analgesia, are more difficult to learn than the basic skills to conduct general anesthesia (GA). RA has not been conducted as a structured rotation for the promotion of consistency as the other subspecialty rotations within anesthesia, but the goals of RA are to develop and cultivate proficiency in motor skills aligned with quality and safe patient care. RA training and practice must impart knowledge, judgment, motor skill proficiency, didactic training, and continued assessment of learned knowledge and skills.

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  1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Thomas Halaszynski DMD, MD, MBA (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology)

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

    Thomas Halaszynski DMD, MD, MBA (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology)

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Richa Wardhan MBBS (Resident) & Elizabeth Freck MD (Resident)

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  1. School of Medicine, Dept. Anesthesiology, Yale University, Cedar Street 333, New Haven, 06520-8051, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

  2. Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dept. Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Francis St. 75, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. School of Medicine, Dept. Anesthesiology, Yale University, Cedar Street 333, New Haven, 06520-8051, Connecticut, USA

    Roberta L. Hines

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Halaszynski, T., Wardhan, R., Freck, E. (2011). Regional Anesthesia Techniques. In: Vadivelu, N., Urman, R., Hines, R. (eds) Essentials of Pain Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87579-8_20

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