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VSA UPDATE

An official publication of the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists

  • Leadership Messages
    • Patient Safety and Comfort Will Always Be Our Concern
    • Creation of an Acute Pain Service at the VA in Richmond, Virginia: Aims and Outcomes
  • Letter to the Editor
    • Letter to the Editor: Comments on Language Reflecting Gender Bias
  • Theme Articles
    • The Opioid Crisis: Four years later
    • Access to Interventional Pain Management in Virginia
    • Spinal Cord Stimulators and Intrathecal Pumps: Anesthetic Considerations, Perioperative Evaluation, and Management
    • ERAS Pain Control Protocol Explained
    • The Influence of Sex, Gender, and the “X” Chromosome on the Pain Management Experience
    • Anesthesia Trainees and Pain Management: Learning through the Global Pandemic Lens
  • Practice Spotlight
    • Richmond Spine Interventions and Pain Center
    • Community Memorial Hospital
  • Member News
    • Dr. Marc Huntoon Receives 2020 ASRA Distinguished Service Award
  • Legislative News
    • Dr. Moses Running for the House of Delegates
    • Senator Emmett Hanger Awarded as VSA’s 2020 Legislator of the Year
    • Legislative Update

House of Medicine

02/26/20

Why Your Involvement In Advocacy Is Essential
By John Butterworth IV, MD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

The answer to the question posed in the title is very simple. If you don’t advocate for your patients and your profession, who will? You probably wouldn’t want to read about all the misadventures I experienced as a board member and officer in the North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists (NCSA) and board member of the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA), but some of … [Read more...] about Why Your Involvement In Advocacy Is Essential
By John Butterworth IV, MD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

02/22/20

Community Building, Collaboration and Outreach: Get involved in your society today!
By Jeffrey A. Green, MD, MSHA, FASA
VSA President
Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

In this issue of the newsletter, we stress the importance of involvement in organized medicine. Organized medicine benefits us all in many ways and has a phenomenal record of accomplishment in the United States. Physicians in organized medicine have delivered an amazing record of achievements in healthcare such as the development of standards of practice, codes of ethics, … [Read more...] about Community Building, Collaboration and Outreach: Get involved in your society today!
By Jeffrey A. Green, MD, MSHA, FASA
VSA President
Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
VCU Health Systems

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From the Editor

Creation of an Acute Pain Service at the VA in Richmond, Virginia: Aims and Outcomes
By Brooke Albright-Trainer, MD, FASA
Acute Pain Physician, Anesthesiologist, and Intensivist
Central Virginia VA Health Care System
Richmond VA

Special thanks to contributions from Robert Trainer, DO; Allen Ha, PharmD; Mercy Orikogbo, RN; and Diane Ibanez, RN. The Hunter Holmes McGuire VAMC cares for veterans with the most significant and life-threatening disease burden across the VHA system. Our VA in Richmond is one of only a few VA facilities across the nation that has a true … [Read More...]

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VSA Executive Board

Jeffrey A. Green, MD, MSHA, FASA
President
ASA Alternate Director

Marie Sankaran-Raval, MD
President-Elect

Casey N. Dowling, DO, FASA
Secretary

Craig Stopa, MD
Treasurer

Emil D. Engels, MD, MBA, CPC, FASA
Immediate Past President
ASA Director

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Andrew Mann
Association Executive
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Newsletter Editors

Brooke Trainer, MD
Editor
brooke@vsahq.org

Daniel H. Gouger, MD
Resident Editor
Daniel.Gouger@vcuhealth.org

The VSA Update newsletter is the publication of the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. It is published quarterly.  The VSA encourages physicians to submit announcements of changes in professional status including name changes, mergers, retirements, and additions to their groups, as well as notices of illness or death. Anecdotes of experiences with carriers, hospital administration, patient complaints, or risk management issues may be useful to share with your colleagues. Editorial comment in italics may, on occasion, accompany articles. Letters to the editor, news and comments are welcome and should be directed to: Brooke Trainer, MD

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