Faculty, fellows, and residents from our department will give the following presentations at the 41st Annual American Society of Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine (ASRA) Meeting, which will be held from March 31-April 2, 2016 in New Orleans, LA (department names bolded):
Hands-On Workshop (WS-09): High Fidelity Simulator for Thoracic Blocks
Thursday, March 31, 1:15-3:15pm, Blue Room
Intercostal Blocks: Steven L. Orebaugh, MD
Comprehensive Workshop (WS-15): Upper Extremity Blocks
Friday, April 1, 8:00am-12:00pm, Conti/Lafitte
Block at the Cords, Peripheral Nerve Blocks (Axillary and Distal Approaches): Rebecca Johnson, MD; Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD; Steven L. Orebaugh, MD
E-poster: Medication Spread after Pediatric Bilateral Single Injection Ultrasound Guided Rectus Sheath Blocks
Ali Hassanpour, MD; John Hauber; Lendi Joy; Stefan Scholz, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP; Mihaela Visoiu, MD (presenter)
Moderated oral/poster presentation: Paravertebral Nerve Blocks for Adolescent Breast Surgery: A Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Clinical Pathway
Thursday March 31, 10:15-11:45am, Moderated Session MP-02, Napoleon Room
Brent McNew, MD (presenter); Lorelei Grunwaldt, MD; Mihaela Visoiu, MD
Oral presentation: Continuous Paravertebral Nerve Blockade for Postoperative Analgesia after Pediatric Nuss Procedure, A CHP of UPMC Pain Management Protocol
Saturday, April 2, 10:15am
Saifeldin Mahmoud, MBChB, MSc, PhD (presenter); Tyson Smith; Yukli Elliott, MD; Stefan Scholz, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP; Barbara Gaines, MD; Lendi Joy; Mihaela Visoiu, MD
Medically Challenging Case Poster: Peripheral Nerve Blockade as Perioperative Anesthetic and Pain Management of Patient with Severe Aortic Stenosis for Charcot Foot Reconstruction
Thursday, March 31, 6:30pm
Alex Dressler, MD (presenter); Kristin Ondecko Ligda, MD
Oral presentation: Improving Measures of Quality and Hospital Accountability in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Review of Implementation of Low-Volume, Low-Concentration, Continuous Motor Sparing Blocks
Moderated session (MP-11), Saturday, April 2, 2:00-3:30pm, Napoleon Room
Kevin King, DO (presenter); Charles Luke, MD, MBA; Luca LaColla, MD; Daniel R. Sullivan, MD, JD, MBA; Jonathan H. Waters, MD
Poster: The Physical Relationship of the Sciatic Nerve and its Paraneural Sheath
Friday, April 1, 9:45-9:55am
Nicole Verdecchia, MD (presenter); Vladyslav Melnyk, MD; Joseph E. Pichamuthu, MS; David A. Vorp, PhD; Steven L. Orebaugh, MD
Oral e-poster Presentation: Decreased Ventilator and Mortality Impact of Paravertebral Nerve Catheters on Outcome of Trauma Patients with Multiple Rib Fractures: A Retrospective Analysis
Thursday, March 31, 8-9:30am
Nicholas J. Schott, MD; Beverly A Pearce-Smith, MD (presenter); Jacques E. Chelly, MD, PhD, MBA; James W. Ibinson MD, PhD; Jason Sperry, MD, MPH; Louis Alarcon, MD
Medically Challenging Case: Anesthetic Management of an Emergent Umbilical Hernia Repair in a Cirrhotic Child C Patient Utilizing Surgical Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block
Friday, April 1
David Yui, MD (presenter); Shashank Saxena, MD; Catalin Ezaru, MD
Poster: Bilateral Continuous Superficial Peroneal Nerve Blockade for Postoperative Pain Management for an Acute Burn Injury
Friday, April 1, 9:55-10:05am
Vikram Bansal, MD (former pain medicine fellow, presenter); Emerson Conrad III, MD; Vladislav Shick, MD
Poster: Continuous bilateral sciatic nerve blocks in a patient with bilateral lower extremity burns requiring early ambulation
Friday, April 1, 7:50-8:00am
Marsha Ritter Jones, MD, PhD (presenter) and Manisha Loomba Trivedi, MD