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ERAS Protocols Are Pathways to Success
The concept of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has been around for more than 20 years, introduced in colorectal and abdominal cases as fast-tracked "accelerated...
The Case for Continuous Nerve Blocks
The use of continuous nerve blocks to manage post-op pain provides many benefits. Patients require fewer opioids, which lowers their risk of opioid misuse and eliminates...
Recoveries Patients Rave About
A safe and speedy recovery is the result of a comprehensive process that begins long before incisions are made and continues well after patients exit your facility. From the moment...
Preventing Post-Op Hernia Pain Is Paramount
A hernia repair will always cause patients some level of discomfort. However, there’s a big difference between an annoying ache and acute pain — or worse, chronic pain...
Help Total Knee Patients Recover in Comfort
Help Total Knee Patients Recover in Comfort; Alternative therapies reduce their reliance on opioids to manage post-op pain.
New Thinking in Post-Op Pain Management
There’s no silver-bullet, one-size-fits-all replacement for opioids in the management of post-op pain, so clinicians are experimenting with various drugs and techniques,...
3 Key Advances in Post-op Pain Management
The opioid epidemic has forced frontline providers, clinical researchers and even patients to think about better ways to manage post-op pain. It’s no easy task. Ask 10...
What's New in Post-op Pain Management
Amid our nation's opioid crisis, providers are shifting their focus to formulations and methods that make post-op pain more bearable instead of eliminating it completely....
Who Has Access to Your Medications?
Who Has Access to Your Medications? Reduce diversion risks with these drug security and disposal solutions.
Planning for Proper Pain Management
One of our facility's surgeons is well known for sending patients home after surgery with 3 opioid pills. That's it. His patients are initially surprised and wonder if that will be...
Chronic Pain in the Era of the Opioid Crisis
In the absence of antibiotic alternatives, physicians in the early 1900s had no choice but to treat every infection with penicillin. Chronic pain went through a similar...
Strategies for Better Medication Management
Medication errors are all too frequent in the OR. A recent observational study identified an error in 5.3% of all anesthesia medication administrations — roughly 1 of every 20...
Post-op Pain Pearls
If your anesthesia providers rely on inhaled anesthetics and opioids, they're behind the times. As Gary Lawson, MD, says: "I used to knock out patients. Now I knock out...
Pain, Pain Go Away
The pain response is a built-in warning system, nature’s way of protecting us from further harm. Chronic pain is more like nature’s nagging nuisance....
Pain Is Personal
Most patients who are hooked on opioids know exactly when they started down the slippery slope of addiction, and many think back to heading home from surgery...
Catching Up With 5 Sustained-Release Drugs
Welcome to the world of time-release treatments — meds that you administer before or during surgery, but that keep working for days, weeks, months or even years,...
Throw Away the Script
Becoming an opioid-sparing surgeon was the most liberating thing I've done in 25 years of practice. Why? Because before I started down this revolutionary path,...
Pain Control: Cruising Down the ERAS Pathway
Pain Control: Cruising Down the ERAS Pathway; Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital likes the way the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program handles its patients' pain.
Safety: How Many Pain Pills Do Patients Really Need?
Safety: How Many Pain Pills Do Patients Really Need; match the number of opioids to the procedure to stop overprescribing.
Opioid-Free Recipe Swap
Anesthetists share the ingredients to their multimodal approach to 3 painful surgeries.