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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Megatrends - January 2018

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technique hasn't been widely studied for long-term pain manage- ment, but there's reason to believe it's a positive step toward elimi- nating post-op pain, says Brian Ilfeld, MD, MS, a professor of anes- thesiology at the University of California San Diego. He says cryoanalgesia has the potential to lessen pain after total knee arthro- plasty (by treating the anterior femoral cutaneous and infrapatellar saphenous nerves), thumb surgeries (by treating the superficial branch of the radial nerve) and rotator cuff repair (by treating the suprascapular nerve). 4. Opioid-free relief As the opioid epidemic continues to claim more lives each day, physi- cians are faced with the unique challenge of trying to treat their

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