Providing exceptional anesthesia services for over 20 years.
WHO WE ARE
7 Physicians
24 CRNA’s
1 Pain RN
SERVICE SITES
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
Battle Creek Endoscopy & Surgery Center
Brookside Surgery Center
LOCATION
Battle Creek, Michigan
Keys to our success.
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Our comprehensive nerve block pain management program has been instrumental in our success.
Alan Angel, MD -
One of the greatest reasons we have been successful for over 2 decades is the level of cooperation between our group and our surgeons.
Madhuri Gupta, MD, MPH -
With centralized management, we are able to reduce medication errors, enhance standardization of care and provide greater patient satisfaction.
Meredith Hall, MD
Comprehensive PeriOperative Anesthesia Care
Preoperative Phase
Perioperative Planning:
- Management of comorbid conditions
- Optimization of home medications
Planned pain reduction methods:
- Setting patient expectations
- Multi-modal oral analgesics
Intraoperative Phase
Adherence to evidence-based recommendations
- Ventilation strategies
- Glucose management
- Hemodynamics
- Volume status
- Thermoregulation
- Reduction in PONV
Minimize narcotic usage
- Multimodal analgesics
- Nerve blocks
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Phase
Protocols for:
- PONV treatment
- Glucose management
- Narcotic and non-narcotic analgesia
Nerve block program:
- Continued use of peripheral nerve blocks and fascial plane blocks
- Nimbus Pain Pro 2 infusion pumps for continuous peripheral nerve blocks
In-patient Care
Analgesia managed by in-house anesthesiologist 24/7
- Standardized multi-modal orders
- Nerve block orders
Protocols continue for:
- Glucose management
- Respiratory considerations
- Narcotic side effects
Out-patient Care
- Standardized outpatient analgesia order set for surgical patients
- Utilization of disposable infusion pumps for continuous peripheral nerve blocks
- Daily phone calls to monitor patient progress
Emergency Department
Early intervention for analgesia infracture patients:
- Continuous nerve blocks
- Multimodal analgesia
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