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Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Posters and Presentations

2020

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Implementing Bedside Regional Anesthesia: Improving Clinical Effectiveness, Geoffrey Ho, Everett Chu, Adam Greenwood, Jason Podolnick, Rachel Lubran, Natalie Pudalov, Philip Th Dela Cruz, Paul Dangerfield Oct 2020

Implementing Bedside Regional Anesthesia: Improving Clinical Effectiveness, Geoffrey Ho, Everett Chu, Adam Greenwood, Jason Podolnick, Rachel Lubran, Natalie Pudalov, Philip Th Dela Cruz, Paul Dangerfield

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Posters and Presentations

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Comparison Of Trigger Point Injections Versus Traditional Therapies In The Management Of Post-Surgical Pain In Patients Who Had Anterior Cervical Surgery: A Retrospective Study, Vivien Pat, Ivy Benjenk, Everett Chu, Eric Heinz, Geoffrey Ho, Anita Vincent Sep 2020

Comparison Of Trigger Point Injections Versus Traditional Therapies In The Management Of Post-Surgical Pain In Patients Who Had Anterior Cervical Surgery: A Retrospective Study, Vivien Pat, Ivy Benjenk, Everett Chu, Eric Heinz, Geoffrey Ho, Anita Vincent

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Posters and Presentations

Introduction: The opioid epidemic has launched the United States into a public health crisis, resulting in a greater emphasis on non-opioid multimodal pain control methods.

At our institution, postoperative posterior neck stiffness and myofascial pain is a common concern after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion or anterior cervical corpectomy with fusion surgery (hereinafter ACS), likely due to prolonged intraoperative positioning in neck extension. Studies have shown successful analgesic outcomes of trigger point injections with local anesthetic for generalized myofascial pain.1-2 This retrospective pilot study aimed to evaluate whether trigger point injections with bupivacaine decreases postsurgical pain compared with …