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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Anesthesia - July 2018

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Opioid-tolerant patients are susceptible to a host of perioperative com- plications, which create challenges for outpatient facilities and providers. Do your part We'll end with a few sobering facts. More young people are dying from opioid overdoses than any other accidental cause of death. Every day, opioids take more lives than HIV did during the 1980s. Risk factors for persistent post-op opioid use are independent from the type of surgery that's performed. By limiting opioid use today, you're investing in the health of your community and in the long-term viabili- ty of your facility. OSM Dr. Dickerson (ddickerson@dacc.uchicago.edu) is an assistant professor of anesthesia and critical care, and director of the acute pain service at University of Chicago (Ill.) Medicine. On Point OP 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J U L Y 2 0 1 8

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