title: Regional anaesthesia with sedation protocol to safely debride sacral pressure ulcers.
abstract: A treatment challenge for patients with sacral pressure ulcers is balancing the need for adequate surgical debridement with appropriate anaesthesia management. We are functioning under the hypothesis that regional anaesthesia has advantages over general anaesthesia. We describe our regional anaesthesia protocol for perioperative and postoperative management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. Daniel.ONeill@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Robins
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ayello
authors.forename: Germaine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cuff
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Linton
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brem
mesh_terms: D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000379:methods*; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000601:surgery*; D012447:Sacrum