3 4 S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E A U G U S T 2 0 1 7
S
ounding
alarms
about the
nation's
opioid
crisis is fairly easy.
Solving it is turning out
to be a lot harder. The
current epidemic
demands that you take a
hard look at how effec-
tively your surgical team
is using multimodal post-
op pain management to
limit the use of addictive
painkillers. Do your part
to stop the overprescrib-
ing of opioids and you'll soon realize that the right mix of analgesics, regional
anesthesia and continuous nerve blocks helps send joint patients home sooner,
healthier and happier.
Maximize Multimodal
Pain Management
• JOINT DECISION Total knee patients are given adductor canal blocks or femoral nerve
blocks, depending on their pre-op condition.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN,
CNOR
Controlling post-op
pain with fewer
opioids is more
important than ever.
Nabil Elkassabany, MD
Philadelphia, Pa.