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For those who completed a CCM fellowship, in what ways do you feel this training has enhanced your OR skills?
Same question for those who did Pain.
Same question for those who did Pain.
Not true. Anyone can learn to locate the "Scotty dog". It's not the procedures that requires the fellowship but rather the work up and assessment of pain. The procedures are easy enough for any skilled general anesthesiologist. Why do you think crna's are starting to enter this realm of anesthesia? Because the procedures are easy and can be learned in a very short time.and as far as actually doing the pain blocks: you absolutely need a fellowship to learn to do proper pain injections. a general anesthesiologist i would be surprised if they could locate the facet joint on xray.
Not true. Anyone can learn to locate the "Scotty dog". It's not the procedures that requires the fellowship but rather the work up and assessment of pain. The procedures are easy enough for any skilled general anesthesiologist. Why do you think crna's are starting to enter this realm of anesthesia? Because the procedures are easy and can be learned in a very short time.
You also don't need a pain fellowship to understand multimodal treatment. Or to be slick with blocks. Or to plan future pain relief. This is all well within the scope of a general anesthesia practice.
I am different from the usual anesthesiologist in that I have done and can do all those blocks you mention. I've even done IDET and IT pumps. I wouldn't do them now since I haven't in about 10yrs. I have however done hundreds of cervical epidurals, facets injections, fluoro guided blocks, celiac plexus blocks with both CT and fluoro guidance. I've done it all and I can tell you it made very little difference in my general practice other than the increased comfort with regional. And this may be why I don't find US to be a useful as others do. Because I have done all of this I feel qualified to comment. I wouldn't say that this makes me better at regional than my partners since their blocks also seem to work very well. Maybe on a rare occasion I can add something that others haven't thought of when dealing with difficult pain pts. But that is rare.not sure what your motivation is here. do you really feel comfortable doing fluoro guided blocks? celiac plexus? stim trials? cervical epidurals? RFAs? of the many general anesthesiologists I know, none are able to do anything like these procedures. do you think if you took the pain boards tomorrow you would pass? there is actually some real content to it and expertise to be gained. i completely disagree that most general anesthesiologists can do routine pain procedures without any additional training. thats why you do the fellowship.
Not true. Anyone can learn to locate the "Scotty dog". It's not the procedures that requires the fellowship but rather the work up and assessment of pain. The procedures are easy enough for any skilled general anesthesiologist. Why do you think crna's are starting to enter this realm of anesthesia? Because the procedures are easy and can be learned in a very short time.
You also don't need a pain fellowship to understand multimodal treatment. Or to be slick with blocks. Or to plan future pain relief. This is all well within the scope of a general anesthesia practice.