4. Catheter-over-needle technology. Want to help your anes-
thetists place continuous blocks in just over 3 minutes? Catheter-over-
needle technology reduces the risk of leakage and its echogenic quali-
ties make it easy to see the catheter on the ultrasound screen, says
Mitchell Fingerman, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
5. Drug shortages. Local anesthetics like bupivacaine, lidocaine
and ropivacaine are in shortage — as are the injectable opioids for
which targeted injections of local anesthetic obviate the need, says
Edward Mariano, MD, MAS, chief of anesthesiology and perioperative
care at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. "The new crisis of drug
Postoperative opioid use
can have serious
complications.
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