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Javier Toro
Javier Toro
Anesthesiologist
11 years of experience
Colombia, Medellín
Stem Cells Colombia

Javier Toro

Anesthesiologist
11 years of experience

WORK EXPERIENCE

-Anesthesiologist, Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital, 2014–2017: Anesthetic care for highly complex surgical patients, both adults and children.

- Anesthesiologist specializing in pain and palliative care, Colombian Pain Institute (INCODOL), 2017–present

  • Anesthetic care for outpatients and inpatients. Care for patients with acute and chronic pain. Transitional pain service: identification, management, and follow-up of patients at high risk for developing chronic postoperative pain. Advanced pain management therapy, continuous regional anesthesia. Image-, ultrasound-, and fluoroscopy-guided analgesic interventions. Outpatient evaluation and management of patients with chronic cancer and non-cancer pain. Implantation of intrathecal therapy pumps and spinal neurostimulation systems.

ACADEMIC TRAINING

  • Physician and Surgeon, University of Antioquia, 2007
  • Specialist in Anesthesiology, CES University, 2014
  • Specialist in Pain and Palliative Care, CES University, 2019

OTHERS

  • SCARE Basic and Advanced CPR Instructor, 2013–2017
  • SCARE CLASA Difficult Airway Instructor - WFSA, 2014–2019

ACADEMIC RECOGNITIONS

  • Outstanding performance in ten semesters of undergraduate medicine.
  • Recognition as a comprehensive SADEA resident in 2013.

ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION

-Ultrasound guided injections for chronic pain including pericapscular nerve group block (PENG): a retrospective cohort study. Poster presentation 20th. Annual pain medicine meeting, ASRA, November 18-20, 2021, San Francisco, CA.

- Articular radiofrequency in patients with osteoarthritis. 8th world congress of the world institute of pain. New York. May19-23, 2016.

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