Jacob Hutchins, MD, wants to take your pain away.
Hutchins, an anesthesiologist and the director of the University of Minnesota Health Perioperative and Interventional Pain Service, uses cutting edge ultrasound techniques to guide anesthetics to specific locations within a patient’s body.
Hutchins has worked for two years at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
To do this, we utilize advanced ultrasound-guided techniques which allow us to watch the needle as it is directed towards the nerve(s) or the area where we are planning to provide pain relief. This allows for a site-specific effect, rather than administering opioid medications, which not only affect the site of pain –but the entire body as well. We stress a multi-modal approach to attack the pain from all pain pathways rather than just the opioid pathway. In this way we optimize pain control and minimize side effects.