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A
talented anesthesiologist can make
everyone at your facility look better.
After all, most patients only know
that despite their fears and anxiety,
the pain turned out to be not so bad,
and that this time they had no nausea! Those are the
keys, says Gregory V. Hickman, MD, the medical
director and anesthesia director of the Andrews
Ambulatory Surgery Center in Gulf Breeze, Fla. If
you can manage pain and nausea, you can do almost
any case in an outpatient setting. Practitioners who
understand innovative regional techniques, he says,
are the key to keeping not only patients happy, but
also your surgeons, administrators and staff.
• Why regional? At Andrews, we've done more
than 25,000 blocks in the last 10 years. Our regional
Medical director
of the famed
Andrews
Ambulatory
Surgery Center in
Gulf Breeze, Fla.
Co-founder of
the popular ultra-
sound-guided
regional anesthesia
education website,
blockjocks.com.
Has 27 years of
experience special-
izing in regional
anesthesia and
post-op pain man-
agement.
Gregory V. Hickman, MD
Anesthesia Service That
Delights Surgeons and Patients
A regional skill set, an aggressive approach
and continuity are the keys to a good provider.
practice is what helped
us be so successful.
Especially in the orthope-
dic world, there's much
more you can do with
good regional anesthesia.
You can basically go from
head to toe: shoulders,
hands, elbows, knees,
feet, ankles and hips. And
now people are doing
total joints all over the
country in outpatient set-
tings. You've got to be
able to manage the pain
to be able to get those
