Brian Ilfeld, MD, MS, talked with the Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center about his pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) with the PMC.  Dr. Ilfeld is the principal investigator of Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: A Nonpharmacological Alternative for the Treatment of Postoperative Pain, one of the Pain Management Collaboratory’s 11 PCTs.  Dr. Ilfeld, a Professor of Anesthesiology in Residence at University of California San Diego, is studying the use of ultrasound guided peripheral nerve stimulation to treat postoperative pain after ambulatory surgery, specifically after shoulder and ankle and foot surgery.

 

In the video below, Dr. Ilfeld discusses the role anesthesiologists play in pain management, the need for safer and more effective postoperative pain management, and the encouraging opportunities that ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve stimulation brings to patients, surgeons, and doctors for a range of surgical procedures, including rotator cuff surgery and bunionectomies.  Learn more about the procedure and the trial in the video below.