The University Clinical Center Tuzla in cooperation with Turkish Anesthesiology and Reanimation Society, Turkish Society of Regional Anesthesia and the Association of Anesthesiologist and Reanimatologists FBiH is hosting a two-day Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Nerve Blockade Course. A team of eminent professors from Turkey Prof. Dr. Yavuz Gürkan (member of ESRA Board), Prof. Dr Fatma Saricaoğlu, Prof. Dr. Turgay Öcal, Assoc. Prof. Alparslan Kuş and Ass. Prof. Aysun Ankay Yilbaş will hold a series of lectures for course participants and perform regional anesthesia in surgical patients.
Ass. Prof. Jasmina Smajić, president of the Association of Anesthesiologist and Reanimatologists FBiH said that continued cooperation with Turkish Anesthesiology and Reanimation Society in organizing Balkan States Anesthesia Days IV in Sarajevo 2017 has led to the idea for implementing of pre- congress training courses, within which Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Nerve Blockade Course is being organized as well.
On this occasion Prim Dr. Mirsad Babović, head of the Department for Anesthesia said that peripheral nerve blocks are performed precisely with the use of ultrasound images for accurate positioning of needle tip.The procedure is practically painless and involves the injection of local aesthetic agents in close proximity to a nerve or nerve plexuses. In case that the procedure requires continuous analgesia, the catheter may be inserted close to the nerve or plexus. As he said, peripheral nerve block can be used alone or combined with general or spinal anesthesia.