Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Distal Extremity Surgery
Peripheral nerve block is well suited for distal extremity surgery. Blocking the nerves at the distal extremity is easily done. It does not require ultrasound or stimulators to identify the…
General Surgery
Costs of Regional and General Anesthesia
Although regional anesthesia techniques seem to expand the opportunity for cost savings when executing plastic surgery procedures, cost allocation is not a simple business. Equivalence must first be demonstrated, and…
Local Anesthetics for Skin Grafting and Local Flaps
In plastic surgery, there are many procedures that can be performed using local instead of general anesthesia. Not only can this help mitigate health care costs, but precious operating-room resources…
A Primer on Local Anesthetics for Plastic Surgery
This article provides some insight into the basic science and concepts relevant to the use of local anesthetics by clinicians in the management of their patients, including a brief history…
Complications of General Anesthesia
A summary of complications associated with general anesthesia including their incidence, mechanism, risk factors, prevention strategies, and management is presented. Key points • General anesthesia has potential complications that may…
Neck Lift Technique
There are many surgical solutions for the aging neck, from closed liposuction, closed or minimal access thread suspension, to open minimally and moderately aggressive approaches with oral sedation and analgesia…
Nonsurgical Neck Laxity Correction
At present there are many different modalities that can be used outside of surgery to treat the aging neck. That being said, nothing works as well as surgery to address…
Serendipity in Ultimate Neck Lift Correction
After a visit to Bruce Connell in 1975, I realized I had seen the ultimate answer to neck correction in facelifts—the treatment of the muscles, the removal of fat both…
Rejuvenation of the Aging Neck
This article addresses specific questions posed to the author by the editor to elucidate his 40-years experience with neck lift. Surgery of the neck has been, in the author’s hands,…
Neck Rejuvenation With Suture Suspension Platysmaplasty Technique
The suture suspension platysmaplasty neck lift, by creating a permanent artificial “ligament” under the mandible, corrects the deformities of the aging neck with aesthetically pleasing results. In essence, this technique…
