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P A I N
M A N A G E M E N T
Connie Casey, RN, CNOR, LHRM
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Adding
Pain Management
Painlessly
SHORT STOP Most pain management procedures only take about
15 minutes, and can be done in a procedure room.
If you've got a C-arm and a table, there's no
reason why you can't add pain cases.
ur multi-specialty surgery center built a few occasional spinal injec-
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tions in a procedure room into a busy and profitable pain management
program with its own dedicated workspace. Looking back, it was a rel-
atively simple expansion for us. You might not be thinking as big as we were, but
equipping and staffing a pain management service line is well within any facility's
reach. Here's an overview of how we added pain, painlessly.
Opening shots
A few years ago, a pair of anesthesiologists who practiced at our ASC asked if
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