Trauma Anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia in Trauma Medicine

Regional anesthesia is an established method to provide analgesia for patients in the operating room and during the postoperative phase. While regional anesthesia offers unique advantages, as shown by the recent military experience, it is not commonly utilized in the prehospital or emergency department setting. Most often, regional anesthesia techniques for traumatized patients are first utiliz...

Anesthesia "Go Team" for trauma patients: field based anesthesia.

AANA Journal/April 2007/Vol. 75, No. 2 107 among critically ill and injured trauma patients throughout the state of Maryland. The trauma center recognizes the fact that prolonged accident victim entrapment will delay transport to definitive care and can potentially have an adverse impact on both patient morbidity and mortality. As a result, the center has the ability to send a team of medical p...

Trauma anesthesia plan for non-permissive environments.

The current war has, like past conflicts, presented the medical community with opportunities to innovate novel approaches to old problems. Although trauma anesthesia is provided adequately in the majority of cases, a standardized approach for treating these complex and critically ill patients is lacking. While this technique was developed for anesthesia in non-permissive environments, the princ...

Regional Anesthesia for the Trauma Patient

Trauma is the sixth most common cause of death globally [WHO, 2011]. In the United States, almost 30 million patients receive medical care for trauma every year [CDC, 2011], and trauma results in 30% of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in the United States [Mackenzie et al., 2007]. In the Emergency Department, 91% of trauma patients are in pain [Berben et al., 2008], and two-thirds of those...

A checklist for trauma and emergency anesthesia.