ARAPMI
Walter Reed Army
Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue
Bldg 2, Ward 44,
Room 4418
Washington, D.C. 20307
(202) 782-2947 (Phone)
(202) 782-5066 (Fax)
MARAA
Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia & Analgesia (MARAA) is a tri-service collaborative group of anesthesiologists that makes recommendations about acute pain management in a battlefield environment.
The Army Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Initiative (ARAPMI) and MMARAA organizations strive to improve the treatment of pain in wounded soldiers. The first successful continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB) was used on a wounded soldier in October 2003.
Through the efforts of ARAPMI and MARAA, peripheral nerve infusion pumps and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps have been approved for battlefield use and for flights on military aircraft, allowing pain control for patients undergoing difficult medical air evacuations from austere environments.
LTC Chester "Trip" Buckenmaier is a founding member and the current President of MARAA.