If you plan on sending
patients home with continuous
nerve blocks in place, assign a
group of nurses to provide a
24/7 phone presence. Someone
needs to answer the phone if a
patient is having a complication
such as infection or bleeding,
the pump has failed or if there's
kinking, leaking, or clogging.
Catheters can also migrate, or a
part of them could remain
inside the patient if the tubing
rips or tears.
I also suggest incorporating
Enhanced Recovery After
Surgery (ERAS) protocols into
the care plan of every procedure
you perform, and making blocks
part of those protocols. Work
with your surgeons' groups to get
them onboard with the use of
regional anesthesia. Discuss
which anesthetics will be given
and the best blocks for their par-
ticular patient populations. These
protocols will be instrumental in
increasing your use of nerve
blocks because they eliminate
having to sell surgeons and
patients on the idea — you sim-
ply implement the protocols that
everyone has agreed to follow.
Increasing your facility's use of
regional anesthesia will help
patients go home quickly, safely
and in less pain — that's always a
positive first step on their road to
recovery.
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anesthesiology, director of
regional anesthesia and perioperative
ultrasound and regional anesthesia &
perioperative ultrasound chair at Texas
Medical Center in Houston.
