Search results for "Pain Management"
Postop delirium risk, appropriate prevention strategy varies by surgery type
Older patients undergoing noncardiac surgery could be categorized into phenotypes that reflect their delirium risk and highlight potentially effective prevention strategies, from prehabilitation to proactive pain management, a retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/13/postop-delirium-risk-appropriate-prevention-strategy-varies-by-surgery-type.htm
13 Nov 2024
Non-opioid pain management regimen may reduce costs, length of stay, overall opioid use
Gastrointestinal surgical patients treated with a non-opioid pain management regimen had less overall opioid use and shorter length of stay and incurred fewer hospital costs than those treated with an opioid-based regimen, a new analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/02/3.htm
2 Jul 2014
November 13, 2024
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April 2013
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/04/
SHM releases recommendations on opioid use in hospitalized adults with acute, noncancer pain
Clinicians should pair opioids with scheduled nonopioid analgesics, unless contraindicated, and always consider nonpharmacologic pain management strategies, according to the consensus statement from the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/11/1.htm
11 Apr 2018
January 2017
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/
Calls to poison control centers for gabapentin, baclofen increased in recent years
The increase in exposures to and misuse of these medications in the U.S. may represent an unintended consequence of recent reductions in opioid prescribing for pain management, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/3.htm
11 Dec 2019
June 2018
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/
August 2013
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/08/
Non-opioid combo offers similar pain control to 3 opioid combos in ED after 2 hours
Patients with moderate to severe acute extremity pain were randomly assigned to receive ibuprofen and acetaminophen, oxycodone and acetaminophen, hydrocodone and acetaminophen, or codeine and acetaminophen.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/15/3.htm
15 Nov 2017