Novel Use of Block Duration as a Patient Outcome Measure for Evaluating Regional Anesthesia Training  Karina M. Chan MS1,2, Meredith M. Pace MD2,3, Brian F. S. Allen MD4, Brittani Bungart MD PhD2,3
1California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, CA, USA, 2Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,  3Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 4Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA Introduction Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia is a skill tested during the applied anesthesia board examination(1). International training recommendations(2) differ from the board exam(1), with a variety of assessment methods discussed(2). While near-real-time feedback on patient outcomes has proven helpful in resident training(3), no published method incorporates patient-reported block duration outcomes, rather than immediate failure(4), into training assessments. This study evaluates patient follow-up and block duration outcomes to identify residents needing additional training interventions for single bolus regional procedures.