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👀 Pressure Check: Saving Nerves in Real-Time! 💉Pressure monitoring detects intraneural injections at 0.2 mL (avg 120 mm Hg), earlier than ultrasound (1.2 mL, 83% cases). ✅ Improves safety during nerve blocks. Read more here:

🎗️ Chemotherapy and Neuropathy - A Global Change 🌍 This systematic review and meta-analysis of 77 studies from 28 countries showed that 4 in 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy experience persistent neuropathy. 💡 Read more: @Ryan_s_DSouzaMD @csaini525

📣 ⚠️ FIRST-EVER guideline on Infection Control for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Is it the end of controversies? Why don't you find out! Read this work led by @DProvenzanoMD here: @ASRA_Society

🚨 REGISTER NOW 🚨 Heading to #ASRASpring25? This is your chance to meet the minds behind RAPM! 🧠📖 Connect with some of RAPM's authors — discuss research, ask questions, and get inspired! Don’t miss out—see you there! Registration: @ASRA_Society

📢 NEW SPECIAL EDITION! ✨ We're excited to present RAPM's Special Edition: "Tackling the Challenge of Chronic Postsurgical Pain" guest edited by @ESchwenkMD with: ✅ 3 editorials ✅ 8 special articles ✅ 6 review articles 🔗 Find it here:

🩸 NEW ASRA GUIDELINES 🩸 The 5th Edition of ASRA Pain Medicine’s Evidence-Based Guidelines on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic and Regional Anesthesia brings key updates! 📖 Full guidelines FOR FREE: @SLKoppMD @ASRA_Society @PerlasAnahi

📊 Buprenorphine vs. Full Agonists: Who WIns? Buprenorphine: 🔑 Reduces pain intensity better than other opioids ⏳ Lasts ~8.5 hrs ⬇️ Lowers rescue med use 👍 Favorable safety 🔎 Check the details here: @VictorAvilaMD @JPDeAquinoMD

🤔 To Cover or not to Cover? Here is the answer! 🎯 Find this and more in the FIRST-EVER guideline of Infection Control for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine here: Thank you @amit_pawa and all authors for invaluable contribution!

⚠️ 🚨 The Guidelines We've All Been Waiting For! 🚨⚠️ What to do for infection control in RAAPM @DProvenzanoMD, @KellyCawcuttMD, @dr_tinadoshi, @rljohnsonmd, @KalagaraHari, @SLKoppMD, @ajrmacfarlane, @amypearsonmd, @DoctorSivaMD, @rakesh6282, @NarouzeMD

👀 Brachial Plexus Block Risks 👉 Axillary: ⬆️ risk of nerve issues & block failure. 👉 Infraclavicular: ⬆️ infection-prone. 👉 Bloody punctures: No major differences. @Ryan_S_DSouzaMD 🎨 INFOGRAPHIC: 📖 ARTICLE: #RAPM

🌟 A First for RAPM! 🌟 Our latest podcast episode is breaking barriers: it was entirely recorded using AI! 🤖 🎙️ This innovative step shows how technology is transforming how we deliver our message and share cutting-edge content. 👂 LISTEN HERE ->

🚨 ⚠️ CONTROVERSY ALERT: Do Local Anesthetic Mixtures Add Up? New meta-analysis shows: ➡️ Little impact on sensory/motor block onset ➡️ Shorter sensory block duration ❓ ❓ Do YOU mix?? 📖 Read more here: @VanessaHCarval2 @pietroskimd 👏 👏

Throwback Thursday to ASRA Fall! The RAPM Social Media team caught up with attendees to chat about what they liked about RAPM as readers, reviewers, and researchers. #ASRAFall24

🔍 Post-op Opioid Use & Persistent Risk ⚡ Study found: - 1.3% of 36,271 opioid-naïve patients developed new persistent opioid use (NPOU) - NPOU patients consumed 7.3 pills in 30 days vs. 4.1 pills in others 💡 Higher 30-day opioid use = ⬆️ NPOU risk 🔗

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ EDITORIAL BOARD APPLICATIONS OPEN ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ If you are interested in being a part of our Editorial Board, you're in the right place. 📆 Applications are open until February 28th, 2025. Apply here:: More information:

ARE YOU COMING? ✨ Can't miss #ASRASpring25! Meet the experts, share your work, learn and have fun!!! ➡️ @Ropivacaine @ASRA_Society @Siva6faces @shaskinsMD @dr_rajgupta @dr_rajgupta @anesthesiadocmd @EMARIANOMD @galusweegie @HoltzMaggie @AmandaKumarMD

🔍 A Daring Discourse: Drug Diffusion and Analgesia in ESB Blocks! Key insights: 💡 Myelinated nerves ≠ more sensitive; diffusion & pKa matter. 💡 Bupivacaine (pKa 8.1) easily penetrates unmyelinated C fibers but struggles with myelinated ones. 🔗

This month we highlight Sandra L. Kopp, MD, a member of the Editorial Board on RAPM. 🎯 Dr. Kopp has some precious tips for submitting authors. 🔗 Click here to read all about the tips and about Dr. Kopp: #RAPM @SLKoppMD

🤔 Do you block the suprascapular nerve when giving intraarticular steroid injections for frozen shoulder? 🤔 ⚡ New study found IAS+SSNB offers early pain relief but no long-term benefit over IAS alone. 👉 Dive Deeper: #RAPM

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