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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
The Anatomical Foundations of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine
Students and practitioners of regional
anesthesia and acute pain medicine often ask how they can be
consistently as successful with their blocks as the true experts are.
Too often do scholars focus on learning techniques of RA and APM from
experts, and then get lost in a myriad of bad results that include
primary or secondary block failures. The answer to this question is that
every discipline of medicine has a unique fundamental truth, and true
understanding this fundamental truth is essential for success. If we
truly understand that the fundamental truth of Critical Care Medicine,
for example, is the management and maintenance of physiological
barriers. Similarly, the fundamental truth of anesthesia is the
management of physiological reflexes. The fundamental truth of regional
anesthesia and acute pain medicine is, according to the timeless wisdom
of Alon Winnie, the in depth knowledge and true understanding of
anatomy. If we fully understand where nerves live (macroanatomy), we
completely understand what the nerves live in - the membranes and
barriers that surround them (microanatomy) and we know how to find these
nerves (sono- and functional anatomy) we can use any technique to do
any nerve block and we will be successful. With this fundamental
understanding, we can now better appreciate, on an anatomical basis, why
blocks sometimes fail; where the "sweet spot" of a nerve is and how to
find it; why epidural blocks are segmental while subarachnoid blocks are
not; why older patients are less prone to postdural puncture headache,
and many more issues of regional anesthesia and pain medicine. The basic
working philosophy and design of this textbook is that the reader can
obtain a good practical working knowledge of the macro-, micro-, sono-,
and functional anatomy required for regional anesthesia and acute pain
medicine simply by viewing the figures and movies and reading the
legends to the figures. If more in depth information is needed, the
extensive text and reference list would adequately compliment this
knowledge
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Critical Care MCQS - A Companion for Intensive Care Exams
Critical Care MCQs is the perfect companion for anyone sitting exams in
intensive care, as a training resource or just wanting to improve their
knowledge in this constantly developing area of medical practice.
Written by critical care doctors with experience of UK and European
examination formats, this book leads the reader through 450 true/false
questions with referenced explanations, covering core syllabus topics
and key influential papers to date. A detailed list of further resources
and recommendations relevant to critical care revision is also provided
to enable readers to further their knowledge and understanding. It is
hoped that this book will prove invaluable for preparation and success
in upcoming intensive care exams for both candidates and trainers. This
book would be useful for not only candidates sitting the UK Final
Fellowship of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM) and European Diploma of
Intensive Care (EDIC) exams, but also the Indian Diploma in Critical
Care Medicine (IDCCM), the Diploma of the Irish Board of Intensive Care
Medicine (DIBICM), the Australia and New Zealand Fellowship of the
College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM), American Board and any other
examinations related to intensive care
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Advances in Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care
September 2016 Volume 34, Issue 3, p439-632
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