Curious to hear how people at different places incorporate blocks into their turnover flow, especially when cranking out a lot of procedures (shoulders all day). Do you take patients back to OR then do a SS block in the room during a case turnover? Do you block in PACU before coming back? Do you have a block team that floats around in the pacu to block before the OR? Do you leave catheters in? Do you manage your own epidural you place on the floor?
I'm in residency and we have a separate block team that blocks while we're in the OR so it's set in by the start of the case, and a pain service manages catheters on the floor post op. The regional team manages pumps that are sent home if the call in.
Just curious what it'll be like after I leave the big academic institution, thanks. I suspect people will say it's done in between cases but I wonder how you get the block to set up fast enough to be adequate for surgery that way.
I'm in residency and we have a separate block team that blocks while we're in the OR so it's set in by the start of the case, and a pain service manages catheters on the floor post op. The regional team manages pumps that are sent home if the call in.
Just curious what it'll be like after I leave the big academic institution, thanks. I suspect people will say it's done in between cases but I wonder how you get the block to set up fast enough to be adequate for surgery that way.