Perioperative Pain Control: Practical Tools for Surgeons.- The Surgeon's Role in the Opioid Epidemic.- Pain Prescription Legislation: What You Need to Know as the Surgeon.- Opioid Prescribing Education in Surgical Training (Follow COP).- Pre-operative Optimization.- Non-Opioid Adjuncts and Alternatives.- Post-Operative Analgesia for the Chronic Pain Patient.- Non-Enteral Pain Management.- Perioperative Annalgesia in General Abdominal, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery.- Perioperative Analgesia for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.- Evidence-Based Perioperative Analgesia for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.- Perioperative Analgesia in Cranial and Skull Base Surgery.- Perioperative Analgesia for Orthopedic and Spine Surgery.- Evidence-Based Perioperative Analgesia for Urologic Surgery.- Obstetrics and Gynecology.- Perioperative Analgesia and Pain Management in Pediatric Patients.- Approaches to Perioperative Pain Management in the Plastic Surgical Patient.
Peter F. Svider, MD,
Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ
USA.
Andrew P. Johnson, MD
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
USA
Anna Pashkova, MD
Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, NY
USA
This comprehensive text is an easy-to-access reference that provides a foundation for understanding contemporary evidence-based practices relating to pain management in the perioperative setting. Chapters review the exponential increase in prescription drug abuse associated with the “opioid epidemic”; surgeons’ important role in managing perioperative and chronic pain in a variety of practice settings; the role of quality improvement in patient safety initiatives; inadequate opioid prescribing education (OPE) in surgical training programs; and literature demonstrating the existence of evidence-based alternatives to opioids.
Written and edited by experts in the field of anesthesiology and pain medicine, Perioperative Pain Control: Tools for Surgeons is a practical resource for surgical trainees and surgeons of all specialties including general surgery, thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, urology, gynecology, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery.