American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine May 2018 - 2

Table of Contents
President's Message _______________________________3
Editorial _________________________________________5
Regional Anesthesia Articles of the Year, 2017 ___________6
Supporting Women in Regional Anesthesia and Pain
Medicine (WRAPM): Why You Should Join the ASRA
Special Interest Group ______________________________8
A Primer for Setting Up Your Professional
Twitter Account __________________________________11
Problem-Based Learning Discussion (PBLD): Pain
Management in Patients Undergoing Mastectomy
and Axillary Surgery ______________________________14
Rebound Pain After a Nerve Block Wears Off ____________20
Dealing With the Difficult Patient _____________________23
Truncal Blocks for Cesarean Pain: Filling a Void in
Obstetric Pain Management _________________________26
Green Anesthesia Special Interest Group: An Innovative
Initiative ________________________________________29
The High Road to Chronic Pain Management with
Medical Marijuana ________________________________32
Pain Management and Palliative Care in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Reflections From Uganda _____________________35

Editor
Kristopher Schroeder, MD
Newsletter Committee
Vivian Ip, MB, ChB (Regional Anesthesia Lead)
Lynn Kohan, MD (Pain Medicine Lead)
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD
Rany Abdallah, MD
Jaime Baratta, MD
Eric Bolin, MD
Dalia Elmofty, MD
Veena Graff, MD
Jerry Jones, MD
James Turner, MD
Resident Section
Andrew Hall, MD, Chair
Priyanka Ghosh, MD, Ad Hoc
Foreign Corresponding
Deepak Thapa, MBBS, DNB, MNAMS, PDCC
Officers
President: Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
President-Elect: Eugene R. Viscusi, MD
Treasurer: Samer Narouze, MD, PhD
Past-President: Oscar A. de Leon-Casasola, MD
Executive Director: Angie Stengel, MS, CAE
Board of Directors
Steven P. Cohen, MD
Nabil M. Elkassabany, MD, MSCE
Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS
Stavros Memtsoudis, MD
Anahi Perlas, MD, FRCPC
David Provenzano, MD
Brian Sites, MD
Founding Fathers
L. Donald Bridenbaugh, MD
Harold Carron, MD (Deceased)
Jordan Katz, MD (Deceased)
P. Prithvi Raj, MD (Deceased)
Alon P. Winnie, MD (Deceased)

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Four Penn Center West, Suite 401 * Pittsburgh PA 15276
phone toll free 855-795-ASRA * fax 412-471-7503 * www.asra.com

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