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M A N A G E M E N T
NO HANGOVER Opioid-free patients are
almost always more alert, more comfortable,
and more likely to be up and out quickly.
Want to Reduce Opioids?
Consider the Alternatives
Most patients
do fine with a
combination of
analgesics and
regional blocks.
Jim Burger
Associate Editor
I
t is surgery's delicate balancing act:
Discharge patients as quickly as possible without using opioids to manage
their pain. That's difficult enough to pull
off in the OR, but when you're trying to
get patients back into battle as quickly as
possible, that's an even greater challenge.
What Gary Lawson, MD, anesthesiologist at the Adult & Children's Surgery
Center of SW Florida in Fort Myers,
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