The Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management Section at Wake Forest University’s Baptist Medical Center focuses on three main areas: patient care, resident education, and clinical research. The first involves improving patient outcomes by practicing regional anesthesia or acute pain management, rather than local or general anesthesia, when appropriate. While some patients and surgeries are not good candidates for regional anesthesia, those that are often have improved outcomes compared to traditional anesthesia techniques.
The resident education arm of the Section involves training new anesthesiologists in the practices and principles of regional anesthesiology during a focused one-month rotation in the department. Thanks to the work of these residents and their supervisors, hundreds of patients at Baptist Medical Center successfully receive regional anesthesia every month.
Through the research arm of the Section, practitioners document their work, discover optimal treatment techniques, and standardize and publicize those that prove most effective in improving patient results to advance the field.
About John Gerancher
Anesthesiologist John Charles “JC” Gerancher designed and implemented the Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management Section at Wake Forest University, serving as its Section Head for several years. He holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
John Gerancher's Regional Anesthesiology 