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Regional Anesthesia: Alternative to Opioids

By |2025-11-10T14:03:54-06:00December 24, 2020|Course Information, Pain Management, Regional Anesthesia|

From immediate physical issues that come with opioid use to long term changes from addiction to these pain-relieving medications, opioids can lead to more problems than any patient would like to deal with. When alternatives are available, like regional anesthesia, patients can get the pain relief they need without the negative effects and can heal and recover efficiently and safely. Maverick Medical Education is focused on reducing the number of opioids prescribed and teaching alternatives that work.

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Implementing Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks

By |2022-08-30T20:07:51-05:00December 22, 2020|Course Information, Pain Management|

Maverick Medical Education believes that equipping more medical practitioners with the skills to provide a number of nerve blocks for their patients will decrease patient pain and increase patient satisfaction. Maverick Medical Education also believes that ultrasound, in many forms, provides medical practitioners with the knowledge of what is happening inside of a patient’s body, leading to better diagnoses and outcomes. When combining the two, the prognosis of the patient increases, allowing for even better pain management and recovery. How can ultrasound guided nerve blocks be implemented in your practice?

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Avoid These Common Femoral Nerve Block Errors

By |2025-11-13T06:21:15-06:00November 24, 2020|Course Information, Pain Management, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

In an ongoing attempt by Maverick Medical Education to partner with and train medical providers across the country on pain management techniques, our team has learned about what works, what doesn’t, and everything in between. By diligent practice and research, we can help reduce the number of opioids prescribed to patients by utilizing alternative methods for pain reduction. Occasionally, there are adjustments to be made in very common blocks, like the femoral nerve block, that will make everyone more effective.

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Ultrasound-Guided Treatment: Accuracy and Reliability

By |2025-11-14T10:03:46-06:00November 16, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

Ultrasound can be used for far more than looking inside the patient to see what is taking place at a specific time. Using point of care ultrasound, or POCUS, allows for an adaptive view of how a patient is progressing or for guiding treatments the patient needs. With this additional view, treatments and procedures are becoming safer, more accurate, and very reliable.

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Treating Chronic Migraine with Nerve Blocks

By |2025-11-13T06:42:42-06:00October 20, 2020|Chronic Pain Management, Course Information|

Chronic migraines are one of the more common pain issues we see from the public. In fact, headaches in general effect over 48% of the population according to Current Pain and Headache. With so many patients complaining of headache pain, better treatments should be readily available. Maverick Medical Education teaches nerve blocks to provide relief for many of these patients.

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The Ins and Outs of Anesthesia

By |2025-11-14T09:11:44-06:00October 20, 2020|Course Information, Course News, Regional Anesthesia|

Anesthesia can refer to a number of different medicines to assist in medical procedures of all types. While commonly thought of as a single type that puts you into a full sleep, anesthesia is actually anything that makes you comfortable to assist in the safety of performing these procedures. At Maverick Medical Education, we know about anesthesia of all types and can help you become proficient at a number of them.

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Interscalene Nerve Block

By |2025-11-14T09:11:06-06:00September 22, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

Our Maverick Medical Education classes cover a number of different topics to provide pain relief or medical techniques suited to help you treat your patients in a more effective manner. As part of the training in some of our courses, different nerve blocks are taught, including the interscalene nerve block.

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Using Ultrasound to Treat Pain

By |2025-11-14T10:19:56-06:00September 22, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

As ultrasound is being used in more fields of medicine, the ways it can be used is changing at a rapid pace. Far more than a mere diagnostic tool, ultrasound is developing into a mode of treatment itself, from assisting doctors in making decisions as a condition progresses to changing the way pain treatment is thought of. Maverick Medical Education marvels at the ways ultrasound technology has been applied in more ways over the past few years and looks forward to how it will continue to change the practice of all aspects of medicine in the years to come.

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The Maverick Difference – Student Interview

By |2022-08-30T20:26:21-05:00August 20, 2020|Course Information, Course Reviews, Maverick News|

Behind the Maverick name is a group of men and women who truly believe the methods and courses we teach will revolutionize how our students treat those in their community. When we start a new course, we hope the students will find value in our instruction and are able to apply new techniques in their practices. Jamie Harris, CRNA, is one of our repeat students who can vouch for the application of these methods and how her patients are better for the courses she has taken. As she completes her fellowship through TCU, she is ready to push even further in the pain management and medical practice fields for the success Maverick sees.

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Point of Care Ultrasound in COVID-19 Triage

By |2025-11-10T11:56:39-06:00July 20, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

There can be little doubt that COVID-19 is the major topic of conversation in lives today, not just for the medical field, but for government, businesses, organizations, and communities everywhere. As each of us adapt to the guidelines and requirements put forth, while also working to protect ourselves and our family, adapting, and doing so quickly, has been vital to success. One incredible way medical teams are adjusting to meet the needs of their patients is by furthering the use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in a number of ways.

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