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In many centers, regional anesthesia techniques are used extensively to allow the performance of orthopedic procedures. The intraoperative use of regional anesthesia has many advantages.
Synonyms and related keywords: spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, neuraxial analgesia, intrathecal analgesia, peripheral nerve blocks, brachial plexus blocks, wound infiltration, patient-controlled analgesia, PCA, postoperative pain...

Conclusion: Perioperative celecoxib significantly improved postoperative resting pain scores at 48 and 72 hrs, opioid consumption, and active ROM in the first three days after total knee arthroplasty, without increasing the risks of bleeding.
Perioperative Celebrex Administration for Pain Management After Total Knee Arthroplasty — A Randomized, Controlled Study Yu-Min Huang; Chiu-Meng...

Pain is a universally understood sign of disease and the most common symptom bringing people to seek medical attention. Physicians have been struggling throughout history to better understand pain and provide true relief for their patients.

Program Objectives
Discuss how to identify patients who are candidates for long term therapy with opiates
Review a careful evidence based protocol for starting and maintaining patients on long-term opioid therapy
Show appropriate steps to minimize the potential for opioid misuse, abuse or addiction
Use of Methadone in Chronic Pain Management--A Video Lecture from...

Objective: Clinical study to determine the acceptability and feasibility of acupuncture for acute postoperative pain control in hospitalized children.
onclusions: Our results support that acupuncture is highly accepted and feasible in critically ill, postoperative pediatric patients with acute pain. Our findings suggest that acupuncture may be a potentially useful adjunctive tool...

Fragility vertebral fractures often are associated with chronic back pain controlled by analgesic compounds. Capacitive coupling electrical stimulation is a type of electrical stimulation technology approved by the US FDA to noninvasively enhance fracture repair and spinal fusion. These uses suggest it would be a possible treatment for patients with...

Preemptive and multimodal pain control protocols have been introduced to enhance rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We determined the complication rate associated with preoperative femoral nerve block (FNB) for TKA. Among 1018 TKA operations, we performed 709 FNBs using a single-injection technique into the femoral nerve sheath and confirming...

An extended-release epidural morphine (EREM) has been introduced to improve postoperative pain management. Studies have shown the effectiveness of this agent in providing better pain control and patient satisfaction for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty. We evaluated postoperative pain relief by comparing average daily pain scores and opioid use with...

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Define chronic pain.
Describe management of chronic pain.
April 6, 2010 — For the first time in more than a decade, the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Chronic Pain Management has updated its chronic pain guidelines.
The objectives are to optimize...

Now that propoxyphene is unavailable, what are other options for analgesia?
Recently, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. agreed to withdraw propoxyphene from the market at the request of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). New research found that propoxyphene, which was sold under the brand names Darvon®and Darvocet®, was associated with...

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Regional and digital nerve blocks provide anesthesia to a specific area of the body during surgery or other procedural instrumentation while preserving consciousness.
Author Mark P. Brady, PA-C (Physicians Assistant)

Results The intervention was rated as supportive, meaningful and user-friendly by the majority of the women. The response rate to the daily registration entries was high and technical problems were few.
Conclusion The results indicate a feasible intervention. Web-applications are fast becoming standard features of mobile phones and interventions of this kind can...

Pain Management After ACL Reconstruction Don Johnson MD Director Sports Medicine Clinic Carleton University Assistant Professor Orthopaedic Surgery University of Ottawa