Saint Mary’s Hospital, an acute care community teaching hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut demonstrated the clinical and financial benefits of an ERAS program that includes ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (USGRA). Since the October 2015 launch of the opioid-sparing ERAS program, Saint Mary’s has seen striking improvements in the safety and quality of care for patients undergoing colorectal surgery, along with substantial reductions in opioid usage.
St. Joseph’s has the second-busiest Emergency Department in the United States, seeing 175,000 patients in 2016. St. Joseph’s Emergency Department launched the ALTOSM (ALTernatives to Opioids) Program in January 2016.
The program uses targeted non-opioid medications, trigger point injections, nitrous oxide, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, and even meditation, to help ease pain in patients with acute injuries like broken bones, and ongoing issues like migraine headaches.
Anesthesia, Intensive Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy
Siegen District Hospital
Siegen, Germany
In the second part of the Ultrasound Instrumentation Course, you will advance your skills on creating a quality diagnostic image by understanding the concepts of acoustics, Doppler controls and optimizing images, and ultrasound safety and bioeffects.
This course highlights the basics on various nerve blocks that can assist patients who suffer from chronic pain, reducing the need for opioid prescriptions. Learn more about the growing opioid crisis and steps that can be taken in the your practice to reduce this epidemic.
This course highlights the basics on various nerve blocks that can be applied to the emergency department setting to reduce the need for opioid prescriptions while treating patients' acute, traumatic pain. Learn more about the growing opioid crisis and steps that can be taken in the emergency department to reduce this epidemic.
Highlighted Area: Injection Site
Highlighted Area: Serratus Anterior Muscle
