Dr. Christopher Prabhakar, MD, Regional Anesthesia Director at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, discusses the Pecto-Intercostal Fascial Plane Block and its application for treating acute pain after cardiac surgery. The initial case report describing Pecto-Intercostal Fascial Plane Blocks in the June 2018 edition of A&A Practice can be found here: https://journals.lww.com/aacr/Abstract/2018/06150/Pecto_intercostal_Fascial_Block_for_Acute.3.aspx
Dr. Prabhakar completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Toronto, residency in Anesthesiology at the University of British Columbia, and Fellowship in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at Dalhousie University. He is currently a consultant anesthesiologist and Director of the Regional Anesthesia Program at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. He grew up in Ontario, but currently lives in Vancouver with his wife and three young children.
Dr. Amit Pawa, Regional Anaesthesia lead at Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation trust, London, UK, discusses the innervation and various approaches to regional anaesthesia of the breast. He gives his opinion on "what's best for breast" and discusses his approach to general anaesthesia-free breast ...
Dr Ki Jinn Chin, an anesthesiologist at the Toronto Western Hospital (University of Toronto), discusses the current state of knowledge regarding the erector spinae plane (ESP) block as of May 2018. The development of the block, the anatomy, mechanisms of action, performance of the block and the f...
Dr. Brett Kindle, a non-surgical sports medicine expert at the Andrews Institute for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, reviews musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound with an emphasis on the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of athletic injuries. Dr. Kindle reviews normal and abnormal sonographic appear...
