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Outcome Studies and Infection Control in Regional Anesthesia

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Regional anesthesia began half a century after ether was first used for general anesthesia. Each branch of anesthesia has waxed and waned in popularity since their introduction, but now, with the advent of evidence-based medicine, true comparisons of outcome following general or regional anesthesia are available. The intraoperative and postoperative benefits along with their mechanisms, where understood, are examined here.

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    Joshua Ryan Dooley MD & Stuart Alan Grant MB, ChB, MMCI, FRCA

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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

    Nalini Vadivelu

Review Questions

Review Questions

  1. 1.

    The following may be at higher risk of developing a postoperative infection at the peripheral nerve catheter site except:

    1. (a)

      Diabetes

    2. (b)

      Catheter duration >48 h

    3. (c)

      Female sex

    4. (d)

      ICU monitoring

    5. (e)

      Lack of prophylactic antibiotics

  2. 2.

    A decrease in mortality rates has been proven with which of the following:

    1. (a)

      Spinal

    2. (b)

      A multimodal approach including regional anesthesia

    3. (c)

      Brachial plexus nerve catheter

    4. (d)

      Epidural

    5. (e)

      General anesthesia

  3. 3.

    Which of the following offers the best postoperative pain relief?

    1. (a)

      Oral opiates

    2. (b)

      PCA

    3. (c)

      Nurse administered IV opiates as needed

    4. (d)

      Peripheral nerve catheters

    5. (e)

      NSAIDs

Answers

  1. 1.

    c

  2. 2.

    b

  3. 3.

    d

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Dooley, J.R., Grant, S.A. (2018). Outcome Studies and Infection Control in Regional Anesthesia. In: Kaye, A., Urman, R., Vadivelu, N. (eds) Essentials of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74838-2_33

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