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Although most of the conversation about the epidemic of prescription opioid abuse centers on chronic pain, opioids also are massively overprescribed for acute pain in children, research shows. Myron Yaster, MD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado Denver and an anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, reviewed research showing that opioids are […]
Read MoreIn patients undergoing arthroscopic hip surgery, the addition of a preoperative fascia iliaca compartment block to intra-articular local anesthetic injection showed no improvement in postoperative analgesia and resulted in leg weakness, compared with placebo. According to the researchers, these results contradict earlier reports and suggest that the fascia iliaca compartment block fails to change a patient’s pain experience due […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Abbott, Tom E., F., MRCP et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: Oct 2017 BACKGROUND: The association between intraoperative cardiovascular changes and perioperative myocardial injury has chiefly focused on hypotension during noncardiac surgery. However, the relative influence of blood pressure and heart rate (HR) remains unclear. We investigated both individual and codependent relationships among intraoperative HR, systolic blood […]
Read MoreExtending the duration of adductor canal blocks after total knee arthroplasty may improve pain control without compromising functional outcomes or delaying discharge. Results of a prospective, randomized, open-label study show that a higher proportion of patients randomly assigned to 48-hour infusion experienced milder pain after total knee arthroplasty when compared with a single-shot injection and […]
Read MoreIntravenous (IV) oliceridine can effectively and safely help manage moderate-to-severe post-surgical pain, according to results of a phase 3 study presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Eugene R. Viscusi, MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and colleagues assessed the proportion of patients who responded to […]
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