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It’s an elective procedure, but for some people, very necessary. But will bunion surgery be successful or not? How can practitioners advise their patients? Surgeons can fuse bones that have become misaligned using a modified Lapidus procedure. Unfortunately, when the bones do not fuse—creating a...
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The American Journal of Managed Care has published an article highlighting the need for policy changes in prescribing opioids postsurgery. The level of opioid dispensing in morphine milligram equivalents in 2019 was nearly 3 times greater than in 1999. In an effort to encourage use of pain...
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New guidelines for perioperative acute pain treatment in patients undergoing complex surgeries have been established by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and 14 other societies, including American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery...
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Early detection for dementia or stroke risk could improve outcomes. In a retrospective cohort study reported in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, researchers used Framingham Heart Study data. After determining widespread pain, and those who were dementia-free at baseline, researchers followed up...
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Some patients have severe pain after surgery. Some do not. Why? And how can we predict who would benefit from a pain management plan that’s personalized presurgery for maximal postsurgery pain relief? Bring in the artificial intelligence. New research presented at the Anesthesiology annual meeting...
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Courtney Kominek is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management at the Truman VA in Columbia, Missouri; Abigail Brooks is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management at the West Palm Beach VA. Here they talk about examples of risk mitigation strategies.