TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 81. Teaching Regional Anesthesia
A1  - McDonald, Susan B.
A1  - Neal, Joseph M.
A2  - Hadzic, Admir
Y1  - 2007
N1  - 
T2  - NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
AB  - Over  the  past  20  years,  the  importance  of  training  anesthesiologists  in  regional  anesthesia  has  become  recognized  worldwide.  More  practitioners  use  regional  anesthetic  blocks  for  their  patients  and  choose  regional  anesthesia  for  themselves  when  they  undergo  surgery.  Documented  improved  outcomes  (eg,  obstetric  anesthesia,  acute  pain  management,  ambulatory  surgery,  etc)  have  also  contributed  to  the  increase  in  popularity  and  use  of  regional  anesthesia  in  the  recent  years.  Despite  this  trend,  the  quality  of  training  in  regional  anesthesia  is  less  than  needed  for  residents  and  fellows,  as  well  as  for  practicing  anesthesiologists.  Quality  training  in  regional  anesthesia  is  necessary  to  promote  not  only  clinical  competence  but  also  practitioner  confidence  in  the  ability  to  perform  the  skill  proficiently  and  safely.  Surveys  of  residency  programs  demonstrate  narrowing  variability  in  training,  and  recent  consensus-based  regional  anesthesia  fellowship  guidelines  may  further  improve  training  at  all  levels.  Academic  programs  have  employed  conventional  and  unconventional  methods  to  compliment  the  exposure  to  regional  anesthesia  opportunities  that  residents  and  fellows  receive  in  the  operating  room,  obstetric  suite,  and  pain  clinic.  In  this  chapter,  these  teaching  concepts  will  be  discussed  as  well  as  future  goals  for  improving  regional  anesthesia  training  for  all  anesthesiologists.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3510980
ER  -