In this dvm360® interview, Tasha McNerney, BS, CVT, CVPP, VTA (Anesthesia and Analgesia), shares how these techniques often used in human medicine are now being incorporated in veterinary medicine
In a dvm360® interview, Tasha McNerney, BS, CVT, CVPP, VTA (Anesthesia and Analgesia), faculty for the Directions in Veterinary Medicine (DIVM) symposium in Miami, Florida, updates us on the latest in leveraging ultrasound-guided techniques for veterinary pain management.
The following is a partial transcript of the video.
Tasha McNerney, BS, CVT, CVPP, VTA (Anesthesia and Analgesia): It's really exciting right now, looking at not only from a pain management perspective but also from an anesthetic perspective, the use of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia. And this is where we use an ultrasound to really target in where that nerve is. So we're placing the local anesthetic, or the block, very close to that nerve, we're kind of bathing that nerve in local anesthetic so that way, all of the transmission of those painful signals is completely cut off.
