Regional anesthesia is an established method to provide analgesia for patients in the operating room and during the postoperative phase. Regional anesthesia techniques for traumatised patients are first utilised in the operating room for procedural anesthesia or for postoperative pain control. Regional anesthesia techniques offer excellent pain control In addition, studies have shown that regional anesthetic techniques can accelerate recovery, decrease ICU and hospital length of stay, improve cardiac and pulmonary function, decrease infection rates and neuroendocrine stress responses, and promote earlier return of bowel function.
Anesthesiologists have extensive experience with regional techniques and are able to introduce regional anesthesia into settings outside the operating room and in the early treatment phases of trauma patients. Anesthesia in early phase trauma Early utilization…
