President NRAP Academy Department of Anesthesiology, Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn , New York
Dr. Rosenblum reviews Platelet Rich Plasma and its application in pain management. PRP may not be the standard of care, but it is probably best care when it comes to choice of inject ate for many interventional pain procedures. In this lecture Dr. Rosenblum discuss the evidence, lack of evidence, common practices, mechanism of action, contra-indications and other controversies in this rapidly evolving subspecialty of regenerative medicine.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the mechanism of platelet rich plasma for alleviating pain and various types.
Understand the process of preparing platelet rich plasma, pre-procedure, post-procedure instrucxtions
Review the evidence, lack of evidence, and controversy regarding PRP
Recognize the use of Platelet-rich plasma for musculoskeletal pathology
Recognize the use of Platelet-rich plasma for spine pathology
