Blocks, Bones & Bold Moves: Regional Anaesthesia in Ortho Surgery

Time: 7pm CET | Duration: 60mn

Objectives:

• Evaluate the role of regional anaesthesia in enhancing outcomes for orthopedic procedures across diverse patient populations.
• Compare different regional techniques—including neuraxial and peripheral nerve blocks—regarding their efficacy, safety, and impact on recovery.
• Identify clinical considerations and evidence-based strategies for optimizing pain management in both elective and urgent orthopedic surgeries.
• Apply regional anaesthesia principles to specific challenges such as same-day discharge, fracture care in the elderly, and upper limb procedures.
• Discuss the evolving landscape of functional recovery, tourniquet management, and analgesic adjuncts in orthopedic regional anaesthesia.

Presentations:

• “Chaos, Coordination, and Catheters: Regional Anaesthesia in the Orthopedic Polytrauma Patient”
  by Melody Anderson
• “High Stakes, Great Blocks: RA in Fragile Fracture Patients
  Hip fractures, frail patients, and the evolving evidence around spinal, PNB, and multimodal approaches”
  by Anemoon Torfs
• “Tourniquets, Tendons & Trouble: Regional Anaesthesia in Upper Limb Surgery_Challenges of RA in hand, wrist, and shoulder surgery.
  Prolonging blocks safely, managing tourniquet pain, and surgical field optimization”
  by Vicente Roques

Target Audience:

• Transplant surgeons (thoracic and abdominal)
• Anaesthesiologists and Pain specialists
• ICU and perioperative care physicians
• Transplant coordinators & nurses
• Pulmonologists and hepatologists involved in post-op care
• Residents and fellows in surgery, anaesthesia, and critical care
• Pharmacists specializing in analgesia and transplant medication

Keywords:

• Regional anaesthesia
• Orthopedic surgery
• Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs)
• Ambulatory joint replacement
• Hip fracture; Spinal anaesthesia
  Frailty
• Tourniquet pain
• Upper limb blocks
• Functional recovery
• Multimodal analgesia
• Early mobilization

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This webinar was held on 20 November 2025.

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This webinar has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 1 European CME credit (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.

Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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