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Anticoagulation and Regional Anesthesia Concerns

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Interventional pain management is an emerging specialty that uses procedures to diagnose and treat chronic pain. Most of these procedures are performed percutaneously and carry a risk of bleeding [1]. Regional anesthesia similarly uses percutaneous injection techniques for surgery, perioperatively, and postoperative analgesia. Patients undergoing these treatments may be receiving exogenous anticoagulants or have impaired hemostasis.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Guthrie Clinic, Horseheads, NY, 14845, USA

    Rinoo Shah MD, MBA

  2. Interventional Pain Management, University Hospital and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Kenner, LA, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye MD, PhD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye MD, PhD

  4. Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye MD, PhD

  5. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95207, USA

    Adam Kaye PharmD, FASCP, FCPhA

  6. Medical School at Western U of Health Sciences, 2011 Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E. Second St. Pomona, New Orleans, CA, 91766-1854, USA

    Jeffrey Y. Tsai MS (Medical Student)

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  1. University Hosp and Ochsner Kenner Hosp, Prof and Chairman,Dept of Anesthesiology, Director of Interventional Pain Mgmt., Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Harvard Medical School, Director, Proced Sedation Mgmt & Safety, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Med, Boston, 02115, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

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Shah, R., Kaye, A.D., Kaye, A., Tsai, J.Y. (2012). Anticoagulation and Regional Anesthesia Concerns. In: Kaye, A., Urman, R., Vadivelu, N. (eds) Essentials of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1013-3_6

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