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P A I N
&
P O N V
post-op pain and limiting PONV risks are essential to maintaining clinical efficiencies, patient satisfaction and overall surgical success.
Here's how we keep your patients comfortable, from the moment they
arrive to the time they're ready for discharge.
Pre-op prescriptions
Patients are prepped and
ready for surgery about an
hour before undergoing
involved procedures such as
ACL or shoulder repairs.
"Effectively controlling
post-op pain and PONV
will keep you on the
cutting edge of
outpatient surgical care."
They receive 200mg of celecoxib and 650mg of acetaminophen. An important note: Aspiration
risks increase if the drugs are given less than an hour before the procedure's start time. These patients also have nerve blocks placed.
(Most aren't sedated before block placement, but those that are
receive 1mg of midazolam.) One of the biggest contributors to the
evolution of outpatient orthopedics is the growing popularity and use
of nerve blocks to control patients' discomfort.
When performed effectively, nerve blocks essentially eliminate pain
throughout the surgical procedure and immediately post-operatively,
usually for 24 hours, and sometimes for up to 48 hours. The most
important benefit of regional blocks, however, occurs during procedures, when getting ahead of patients' pain lets anesthesia providers
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