Editor
Admir Hadzic, MD, PhD
Director of Regional Anesthesia
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Professor of Anesthesiology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Contributors
Marina Allen, MD
Regional Anesthesiologist
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Anna Barczewska-Hillel, MD
Pain Management Specialist
Staff Anesthesiologist
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Alton Barron, MD
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Staff Orthopedic Surgeon
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
James
Beckman, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
Hospital for Special Surgery
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, New York
Honorio T. Benzon, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Pain Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
David J. Birnbach, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Stephan
Blumenthal, MD
Consultant
Department of Anesthesiology
Orthopedic University Hospital Balgrist
Zurich
Switzerland
André P. Boezaart, MB ChB, MPraxMed, DA(SA),
FFA(SA), MMed(Anaesth), PhD
Professor
Department of Anesthesia
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Director of Regional Anesthesia Study Center of Iowa (RASCI)
Director of Orthopaedic Anesthesia
Director of Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Program
Iowa City, Iowa
Steven C. Borene, MD
Anesthesiologist
North Iowa Anesthesia Associates
Mason City, Iowa
Alain Borgeat, MD
Professor and Chief of Staff
Department of Anesthesiology
Orthopedic University Hospital Balgrist
Zurich
Switzerland
Hervé
Bouaziz, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Hôpitaux de Ville
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nancy
Nancy
France
Chester C. Buckenmaier III, MD
Chief, Army Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management
Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC
John Butterworth, MD
Robert K. Stoelting Professor
Chairman, Department of Anesthesia
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana
Kenneth
D. Candido, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Pain Management
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois
Andrea Casati
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Therapy
University of Parma
Policlinico di Parma
Parma
Italy
Gregory M. Casey, DDS
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Louis
Catalano, MD
Hand Surgeon
Assistant Professor of Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Vincent
Chan, MD, FRCPC
Professor
Department of Anesthesia
Toronto Western Hospital
University Health Network
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Olivier
Choquet, MD
Regional Anesthesiologist
La Conception Hospital
Marseille
France
Laura Lowrey Clark, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Stacy A. Coffin, MD
Anesthesiologist
St. Luke's Hospital Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota
Adam Cohen, MD
Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Cliff P. Connery, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Elyad
Davidson, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
José De Andrés, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Valencia University Medical School
Chairman of Anesthesia Department
Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Management Center
Department of Anesthesia
Valencia University General Hospital
Valencia
Spain
Oscar
de Leon, MD
Chief, Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Professor of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Robert Della Rocca, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Rick J. Delmonte, DPM
Attending Podiatrist
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Bonnie Deschner, MD
Regional Anesthesiologist
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Steven Deschner, MD, PhD
Neurologist and Research Fellow
Department of Anesthesia
Division of Regional Anesthesia
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Faruk Dilberovic, MD, PhD
Professor of Anatomy
Faculty of Medicine
University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Benaifer
D. Dubash, DMD
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York, New York
Clint E. Elliott, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana
F. Kayser Enneking, MD
Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology, and Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Holly Evans, MD, FRCP(C)
Associate
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Elisabeth Fouché, MD
Designer
Advanced Data Network
Sainte Foy les Lyon
France
Carlo D. Franco, MD
Chairman Orthopedic Anesthesiology
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Associate Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology and Anatomy and Cell Biology
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Michael Fredrickson, MD
Specialist in Pediatric Anesthesia
Starship Children's Hospital
Park Road, Grafton
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Anesthesiology
The University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand
Jeffrey Gadsden, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Consultant Anesthetist
Gold Coast Hospital
Queensland
Australia
Elizabeth Gaertner, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Hautpierre Hospital
Strasbourg
France
Philippe Gautier, MD
Wezembeek-Oppem
Belgium
J. C. Gerancher, MD
Associate Professor and Section Head
Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Steven Z.
Glickel, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Hand Surgeon
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Andrew T. Gray, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California
Paul M. Greenburg, DPM
Podiatric Surgeon
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York, New York
Roy A. Greengrass, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
Admir Hadzic, MD, PhD
Director of Regional Anesthesia
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Professor of Anesthesiology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Brian E.
Harrington, MD
Anesthesiologist
Billings, Montana
William Harrop-Griffiths, MB BS, FRCA
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Herston, Queensland
Australia
Adam T. Hershkin, DMD
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York, New York
Loreen A. Herwaldt, MD
Department of Internal Medicine
Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Program of Hospital Epidemiology
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa
Anthony M.-H. Ho, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FHKCA, FHKAM
Professor
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
People's Republic of China
Paul
Hobeika, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Staff Orthopedic Surgeon
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Brian M. Ilfeld, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
San Diego, California
Giorgio Ivani, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Chairman, Division of Pediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Regina Margharita Children's Hospital
Torino
Italy
Tagashige Iwata, MD
Research Fellow in Regional Anesthesia
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Rasha S. Jabri, MD
Instructor of Anesthesiology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Rehana
Jan, MD
Anesthesiologist
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Edward Jew, MD
Surgeon
Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Stephan
Kapral, MD
Professor of Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Medical University Vienna
Austrian Regional Anaesthesia Group (ARAG)
Vienna
Austria
Eldan Kapur, MD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
Department of Anatomy
Medicine School
University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Manoj K.
Karmakar, MD, FRCA, DA (UK), FHKCA, FHKAM
Associate Professor
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
People's Republic of China
Joseph
Kay, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesia
Sunnybrook and Women's College HSC
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Stephen M. Klein, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Zbigniew J. Koscielniak-Nielsen, MD, PhD, FRCA
Assistant Professor
Head of Orthopaedic Anaesthesia
Rigshospital
Copenhagen
Denmark
Sabine Kost-Byerly, MD
Clinical Director, Pediatric Pain Management
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
Maxine M. Kuroda, PhD, MPH
Statistician
Children's Memorial Research Center
Chicago, Illinois
Suzanne
Lenart, RN
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gregory A. Liguori, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Hospital for Special Surgery
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, New York
Spencer S. Liu, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Navin A. Mallavaram, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Peter Marhofer, MD
Professor of Anesthesia
Medical University Vienna
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Austrian Regional Anaesthesia Group (ARAG)
Vienna
Austria
Joseph
Marino, MD
Anesthesiologist
Greenlawn, New York
Colin J. L. McCartney, MB ChB, FRCA, FCARCSI, FRCPC
Assistant Professor and Director of Regional Anesthesia
Toronto Western Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Susan B. McDonald, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Patrick M. McQuillan, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs
Director, Acute Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Pennsylvania State University
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Kenneth
Merhige, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
David
Misita, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Zakira
Mornjaković, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Institute of Histology
Medical School of the University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Michael F. Mulroy, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Virginia Mason Medical Center
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Joseph M.
Neal, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Karen C. Nielsen, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Anahi Perlas, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia
Toronto Western Hospital
University Health Network
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Geofrey J.
Pollack, MD
Head and Neck Surgeon
Facial Plastic Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Clinical Instructor in Otolaryngology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Jean M. Pottinger, RN, MA
Program of Hospital Epidemiology
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa
Marta Putzu, MD
Anesthesia Fellow
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Therapy
University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Jayanthi Sudharma
Ranasinghe, MD, FFARCSI
Department of Anesthesiology
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
James P. Rathmell, MD
Director, MGH Pain Center
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Narinder
Rawal, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Orebro University Hospital
Orebro
Sweden
Elizabeth M. Renehan, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Fellow in Regional Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Scott S. Reuben, MD
Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesiology
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, Massachusetts
Jacques
Ripart, MD, PhD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management, and Intensive Care
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nimes
Nimes
France
Christopher
Robards, MD
Regional Anesthesiologist
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida
Xavier Sala-Blanch, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain
Francis V. Salinas, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Alan C. Santos, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Anesthesiology
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana
Leslie Schechter, PharmD
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert J. Schlosser, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Froedtert East Clinics
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sebastian Schulz-Stübner, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesia
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa
Paul J. Seider, DMD
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York, New York
François
J. Singelyn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Universite Catholique de Louvain School of Medicine
St Luc Hospital
Brussels
Belgium
Ilija
Škrinjarić
Professor of Pediatric Dentistry
Department of Pediatric Dentistry
School of Dental Medicine
University of Zagreb
Zagreb
Croatia
Lakshmanasamy
Somasundaram, MD
Research Fellow in Regional Anesthesia
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Susan M. Steele, MD
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Santhanam Suresh, MD, FAAP
Director of Research
Children's Memorial Hospital
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Leroy
Sutherland, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Instructor of Difficult Airway Management
Pain Management Specialist
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Leslie
C. Thomas, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana
Daniel
M. Thys, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York
Knox
H. Todd, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute
Department of Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Hospital
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, New York
Tony Tsai, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Regional Anesthesiologist
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Ban
C. H. Tsui, Dip. Engineering, BSc (Mathematics), BSc (Pharmacy), MSc, MD,
FRCP(C)
Pediatric and Adult Anesthesiologist
Director of Clinical Research
Alberta Heritage Clinical Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
Marcy S. Tucker, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Tetsu Uejima, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Children's Memorial Hospital
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Douglas Unis, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
William F. Urmey, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Hospital for Special Surgery
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Department of Anesthesiology
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, New York
Bernadette Veering, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden
The Netherlands
Eugene R. Viscusi, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jerry D. Vloka, MD,
PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, New York
Daniel T.
Warren, MD
Anesthesia Pain Management Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Paul F. White, PhD, MD, FANZCA
Professor and Holder of the Margaret Milam McDermott
Distinguished Chair in Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Brian A. Williams, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh
Director, Outpatient Regional Anesthesia Service
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center South Side
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Paul H. Willoughby, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Acute Pain Service
Department of Anesthesiology
Health Sciences Center
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
Alon P. Winnie, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anesthesiology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Chi
Wong, MS
Anatomy Fellow
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Old Westbury, New York
Christopher
L. Wu, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Myron Yaster, MD
Richard J. Traystman Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland