Christopher R. Ostafy, CRNA

Conditions and Services Within This Provider's Scope

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Conditions

Acute Pain

• Broken Rib Pain

Anxiety & Phobias

• Claustrophobia During MRI
• Dental Anxiety
• Fear of Surgery or Needles

Face & Jaw

• Temporomandibular joint disorder

Head & Face

• Cluster Headaches
• Neck-Related Headaches

Joint Pain

• Hip osteoarthritis
• Knee osteoarthritis
• Shoulder Pain

Joints & Soft Tissue

• Bursitis
• Lateral hip pain and trochanteric bursitis

Maternity

• Labor Pain

Mental Health

• Bipolar Depression
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• OCD
• Postpartum depression
• PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
• Treatment-resistant depression

Nerve Pain

• Carpal tunnel
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Occipital neuralgia
• Outer thigh burning and numbness
• Phantom limb pain
• Pinched nerve
• Piriformis syndrome
• Rib pain
• Sciatica
• Shingles pain
• Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
• Trigeminal neuralgia

Pain

• Cancer pain
• Chronic pelvic pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Migraines
• Muscle knots and spasms
• Post-Surgery Pain
• Spinal headache

Pelvic & Abdominal

• Abdominal wall nerve pain
• Pudendal nerve pain

Sedation & Phobias

• Panic Attacks During Medical Procedures
• Special Needs Procedure Anxiety

Spine & Back

• Arthritis of the spine
• Chronic back pain
• Degenerative disc disease
• Failed back surgery syndrome
• Herniated disc
• Neck pain
• Sacroiliac joint pain
• Spinal Stenosis Pain
• Spondylolisthesis
• Tailbone pain
• Whiplash Pain

Procedures & services

Consultations

• Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation

General Anesthesia

• General anesthesia

Infusion Therapy

• Ketamine infusion therapy
• Lidocaine Infusion for Chronic Pain

Injections

• Caudal Epidural Injection
• Epidural steroid injection
• Facet joint injection
• Sacroiliac joint injection
• Transforaminal Epidural Injection
• Trigger Point Injections

Joint Injections

• Hip Joint Injection
• Knee Joint Injection
• Shoulder Joint Injection

Joints & Soft Tissue

• Bursa injection

Maternity

• Labor epidural
• Spinal spinal block

Nerve Blocks

• Celiac plexus block
• Lumbar sympathetic block
• Medial branch block
• Nerve Block Injection
• Occipital nerve block
• Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) Block
• Stellate ganglion block

Pain Management

• Back Muscle Nerve Block
• Knee nerve block and ablation
• Knee Nerve Burning
• Pudendal nerve block
• Rib nerve block
• Spinal cord stimulator trial
• Superior hypogastric plexus block

Pain Relief Procedures

• Blood patch for spinal headache
• Continuous Nerve Catheter Placement
• Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Setup
• Radiofrequency ablation

Sedation

• Deep Sedation
• Emergency Pain Relief
• In-Office Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery
• Minimal dental sedation
• Moderate dental sedation
• Pediatric Dental Sedation
• Sedation for Colonoscopy and Endoscopy
• Sedation for Egg Retrieval
• Sedation for Eye Surgery
• Sedation for MRI
• Sedation for Vasectomy

Specialized Care

• Post-Operative Nausea Treatment

Surgical Pain Relief

• Abdominal Nerve Block
• Chest Wall Nerve Block

Vascular Access

• Central line placement in child
• Midline IV Catheter Placement
• Ultrasound-Guided IV Placement