SA044 - Regional Anesthesia for Painful Procedures: Ask Yourself, Would YOU Want Oral Surgery Without Pain Management?

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

5:35 PM – 6:25 PM US PDT

Location: Mandalay Bay H, Level 2

CE: 1 CE Credit(s)

Presenter(s)

Christopher J. Snyder, DVM, DAVDC

Residency Director, Dentistry and Oral Surgery
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine
Madison, WI, United States

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Moderator(s)

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Peter Perron, DVM

Practice owner
Southwest Animal Hospital
Las Vegas, NV, United States

It’s all too common that our veterinary patients present with chronic sources of oral pain, whether it be broken teeth or severe attachment loss, the chronicity predisposes the development of windup pain which not only complicates our abilities to maintain the patient under general anesthesia, but also can complicate transition to medications post procedure. During this session we will review how to extend the duration of activity for local block drugs, identify landmarks for accurate delivery and discuss situations where regional anesthesia may not be desirable.

Learning Objectives:

List advantages to adding regional anesthesia to your oral surgery patients
Describe methods to extend the duration of action for regional anesthesia
Define the landmarks for local block administration and describe the tissues covered by each block
Discuss oral surgery procedures or situations where regional anesthesia may not be desirable
Define the toxic dose for the lidocaine family of drugs