their neck or groin or leg in the
pre-op phase, this new informa-
tion is going to make some
patients uncomfortable," says
Dr. Shaparin.
At Montefiore, surgeons elimi-
nate uncomfortable surprises by
having all patients who will
receive a nerve block watch a
video about the process before
they arrive for surgery.
Fewer opioids, less pain
Ultimately, an effective pain management regi-
men has a pre-op component, an intraoperative
component and a post-op component — and it
should include non-opioid analgesics, says Dr.
Shaparin. However, while Dr. Shaparin obviously
believes narcotic-reducing pain management is
important, he makes a key distinction in opioids'
role in surgery: "It's important to note that opioid-
sparing does not mean opioid-free," he says.
"Those phrases aren't the same. We're not trying
to eliminate opioids altogether, we're just trying
to use less of them."
Thanks to evolving regional blocks and tried-and-
true multimodal cocktails, in most cases you can
use fewer opioids to effectively manage patients'
post-op pain.
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