In Collaboration with #GEHealthcare, Jeff Gadsden and I will be bringing Block It Like It’s Hot Podcast #BILIH #BlockItLikeItsHot to ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRASpring25! Come and join us! Find out more in our latest episode! open.spotify.com/episode/4SWev0… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blo…

Huge congratulations to Brittani Bungart, MD, PhD on her ASRA Pain Medicine resident travel award. #ASRASPRING25 Mass General Anesthesia changing the way we follow up on blocks

Happening now: moderated poster session in Gatlin A3 #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50 These two #blockstar #DukeRAP fellows gave eloquent and informative oral presentations! Emily Barney Hall Stephen Davies Duke Anesthesiology

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) fellow presentation on machine learning - it’s imperative to identify and stratify patients perioperatively to optimize outcomes and assign the best treatment plan. That’s what #integrativeanesthesia is all about. #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Sandy Kopp demystifies why there’s a difference in anti-coag guidelines between specialties- one is to prevent thrombus and one is to prevent major bleeding. It’s not that cards is more liberal, the goals are different. #asraspring25 #asra50

Lynn Kohan talk was a powerful reminder: ➡️OUD is a public health crisis ➡️We’re in a prime position to help. ➡️Continue home dose buprenorphine when possible ➡️Use multimodal analgesia, full mu agonists & psychosocial support ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRA50 #ASRASpring25

It's critical to continue #buprenorphine perioperatively for #OpioidUseDisorder due to high risk of post-discharge mortality. Lynn Kohan Updates #ASRASPRING25 A recent VA study showed continuation did not result in increased pain or #opioids required pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39527644/

I think it’s safe to say that #BILIH #BlockItLikeItsHot Block It Like It’s Hot Podcast has landed at ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRASpring25 #ASRA50 Big thanks to GE HealthCare Vscan Family #GEHC for making this in-person Podcast happen! So much fun to record live with Jeff Gadsden 🤗 Thanks to Raj Gupta, MD, FASRA for photo!

As usual, an excellent talk by Kwesi Kwofie on neurological complications Key takeaways: ➡️Fastest onset ≠ best block ➡️Minimize needle-nerve contact ➡️Tangential needling ➡️Multimodal monitoring = fewer intrafascicular injections & nerve injuries #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Empowering practitioners with #Cryoneurolysis: Excellent by Engy Tadros Said 🥶Basics: Leverages Wallerian degeneration for long-lasting analgesia. 🥶Temps: –70°C to –90°C (N₂O > CO₂) 🥶If you’d block it, you can cryo it—but should you?” 🥶Always block first! #ASRA50 #ASRASpring25

@EngySaid_MD gives an excellent presentation on beginning cryoneurolysis in your practice. #ASRASPRING25 ASRA Pain Medicine

Music is anxiolytic & analgesic even in patients under general anaesthesia 🎶 BUT Patient must 👍 the playlist Personal #ASRASPRING25 favourite? Pink Floyd ‘Comfortably Numb’? Ryan D'Souza, MD ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRA50

Non-pharmacological interventions for #pain presented by Ryan D'Souza, MD Perioperative #Acupuncture has shown improvements in pain and PONV potentially thru multiple nervous system pathways. #integrativemedicine #ASRASPRING25

Once part of the Johns Hopkins ACCM family, always part of the family! Great group of past, current, and future colleagues interested in #RegionalAnesthesia and #AcutePain representing and presenting at #ASRASPRING25

The women of Johns Hopkins ACCM RAAPM with a strong and cheerful presence at #ASRASPRING25 #ASRA50

Up and at ‘em early for the last day of #ASRASPRING25 - gorgeous sunrise over the Rosen Shingle Creek lake and breakfast with some brilliant minds about the evolving health equity landscape #asradiversity Uchenna Umeh, MD, FASA, FASRA

Mixing local makes me nervous, but the lecture yesterday with Drs. Soffit and Fettiplace helped determine my stance. Still not going to mix, but for those who do, there’s tools to do it more safely. ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRASPRING25 #asra50

Unfortunately, had to head out early, but it was a phenomenal meeting as always. Thanks to Dr. Vishal Uppal MBBS, FRCA 🇨🇦🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and all the amazing people & scientific minds in ASRA Pain Medicine #ASRAspring25 Next up Chronic Pain in Vegas Nov 21-23rd & Regional and Acute Pain in Phoenix April 16-18th!

What did you love? What can we improve? Planning has already been underway for #asraspring26 with Drs. Le-Wendling and Porter. Reach out to ASRA Pain Medicine in any/all avenues to offer feedback. #workshops #lectures #experts #pblds #posters #ASRASPRING25 #asrs50

Shout to Johns Hopkins for leading yesterday’s ASRA journal club! Pro-con debate on the use of liposomal bupivacaine. Dr. Kellie Jaremko as moderator, Dr. Kelly Kaneshiro and Dr. Reade Tillman as the presenters.