Your hosts Amit ”I Got The” Pawa and Jeff “Tha Notorious JCG” Gadsden discuss current issues in regional anesthesia, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, pain medicine and POCUS, while dropping some tips on how to make your regional anesthesia workflow a blocker’s delight. Each episode dives into clinical pearls, emerging research, and practical POCUS tips (along with a lot of banter and dad jokes). Ideal for anesthesiologists, pain physicians, CRNAs, and trainees.
Ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia training should prioritise transferable scanning and needle-control skills, a manageable core set of Plan A blocks and supervised hands-on practice, while recognising that absent nerve stimulation does not exclude close needle–nerve proximity.
Anaesthesia, perioperative and regional-block teams get a practical discussion of transmuscular quadratus lumborum block, ultrasound endpoints, hydrodissection, nerve stimulation and block-room flow. The safety thread is immediate and practical: the final side check should happen just before needle insertion, with an empowered assistant and a restart after interruption.
Regional anaesthesia is framed as a team process, not just a block technique. The focus is on pre-operative messaging, block-room workflow, trauma analgesia for pelvic, rib and long-bone fractures, and practical scanning habits for knee and axillary block practice.
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