American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine August 2018 - 2
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President's Message _______________________________3
From the Editor's Desk______________________________5
Innovate and Rejuvenate in the Heart of Texas at the
17th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting ___________________6
What's New with ASRA Coags 2.0? ____________________8
The Crisis of Drug Shortages in Regional Anesthesia
and Analgesia ___________________________________12
Update in Education _______________________________16
Cancer Pain: A Review of Interventional Treatment and
Argument for Early Involvement by Pain Physicians ______19
Regional Anesthesia Assessment Tools ________________22
Peer-Driven Principles Promote Correct-Site Nerve Blocks __26
Medical Necessity, Documentation, Coding, and Billing
for Intrathecal Therapy ____________________________30
Review of Dexmedetomidine (Precedex) for Acute Pain
and Analgesia ___________________________________33
"Oh Mg!" Magnesium: A Powerful Tool in the
Perioperative Setting ______________________________37
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, PhD
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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