Usha Saldanha, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
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Locations and Contact
Patient Support Services Building
Patient Support Services Building
4150 V St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-5031
Additional Numbers
Physician Referrals
Philosophy of Care
Dr. Saldanha strives to provide compassionate care to every patient while utilizing multi-modal analgesia techniques and evidence based medicine.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Saldanha is a faculty anesthesiologist with fellowship training in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine who provides anesthesia services in the main hospital, same day surgery center and as a member of the acute pain team. She has clinical interests in regional anesthesia and acute pain as well as ambulatory anesthesia.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Saldanha is a board certified anesthesiologist with fellowship training in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. She has professional interests in resident/fellow education, expansion of the regional and acute pain services and incorporation of multi-modal analgesic techniques in daily anesthesia practice in both the hospital and ambulatory setting.
Division
General Anesthesiology
Undergraduate School
B.A., Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 2005
Medical School
M.D., Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 2011
Internship
Internal Medicine, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing NY 2011-2012
Residency
Anesthesiology, Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ 2012-2015
Fellowship
Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, UC San Diego, San Diego CA 2019-2020
Systems Based Project Winner: "The Effects of Antenatal and Perinatal Education of Labor Analgesia Options on Maternal Anxiety, Labor Analgesia, and Maternal Satisfaction with Labor Analgesia." Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2015
Golden Apple Teaching Award, Nominated by medical students rotating through anesthesia. Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School, 2014
Saldanha U, Aldwinkle R, Chen A, Raut S, Penta D, Arroyo Valazquez Y, Sen S, Fascia iliaca catheters for donor site pain after split-thickness skin grafting for acute burn injury: a retrospective review, Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2024;, irae052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jbcr/irae052
Penta DL, Saldanha U, Liu H. Paravertebral block for analgesia following excision of osteochondroma of the scapula: A case report. J Biomed Res. 2023 Sep 10;37(5):401-404. doi: 10.7555/JBR.37.20230048. PMID: 37705088; PMCID: PMC10541773.
Macres S, Saldanha U, Zhou J, Bishop R, Chen A: Acute Pain Management, Cullen BF, Stock MC, Ortega R, Sharar SR, Holt NF, Connor CW, Nathan N, (ed), Clinical Anesthesia, 9th Edition, Wolters Kluwer.
Macres SM, Aldwinckle R, Saldanha U, Pritzlaff S, Jung M, Santos J, Kotova M, Bishop R: Reconceptualizing acute pain management in the 21st century, Advances in Anesthesia, Elsevier.
Calixto NE, Saldanha U. Perineural Adductor Canal Catheter Placement for Prevention of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome-I Exacerbation After Knee Arthroscopy: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2022 Apr 11;16(4):e01579. doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001579. PMID:35404910.
Li Y, Lal B, Kwon S, Fan X, Saldanha U, Reznik TE, Kuchner EB, Eberhart C, Laterra J, Abounader R. The scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor: c-met pathway in human embryonal central nervous system tumor malignancy. Cancer Res. 2005 Oct 15;65(20):9355-62. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-1946. PMID:16230398.