Congrats to Drs. Monisha Dilip & Wendy Sun on their new research letter in Pain Medicine! Important, practical opioid stewardship work. 👏 #OpioidStewardship #PainManagement

Read it here: academic.oup.com/painmedicine...

Pain management in surgery isn’t one-size-fits-all. The updated SAGES OpiVoid™ course covers:
🩺 Geriatric pain & opioids
🚨 Difficult scenarios
💊 Non-opioid strategies
🎥 SAGES Annual Meeting sessions
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The updated SAGES OpiVoid™ course is live. 8 hours of CME designed by surgeons to address opioid stewardship, pain management & SUD in surgical care.
✅ Practical strategies
✅ Free for SAGES members
🔗 www.opivoid.org
#OpioidStewardship #CME #PainManagement
@highdiver97 @DebbyKeller

Pain and Opioids After Surgery (PANDOS) | The Institute of Applied Health Sciences | The University of Aberdeen

🔗 Learn more:
📌 PANDOS Study 👉 www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
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We've enrolled 5,000+ patients across 120+ hospitals in 10 countries, advancing perioperative pain management & opioid stewardship across Europe! 💊📊

🔗 Supported by ESAIC @esaic.bsky.social 👉 esaic.org

Thanks to all teams & participants! 🙌 Stay tuned! 📢

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Excited to be leading the implementation sessions today on the new opioid stewardship quality indicators in patients undergoing surgery for bowel cancer across Yorkshire & Humber for the Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme. #YCRBCIP #QI #ImpSci #OpioidStewardship

Perioperative Pain Management and Opioid Stewardship: A Practical Guide Surgical procedures are key drivers of pain development and opioid utilization globally. Various organizations have generated guidance on postoperative pain management, enhanced recovery strategies, multimodal analgesic and anesthetic techniques, and postoperative opioid prescribing. Still, comprehensive integration of these recommendations into standard practice at the institutional level remains elusive, and persistent postoperative pain and opioid use pose significant societal burdens. The multitude of guidance publications, many different healthcare providers involved in executing them, evolution of surgical technique, and complexities of perioperative care transitions all represent challenges to process improvement. This review seeks to summarize and integrate key recommendations into a “roadmap” for institutional adoption of perioperative analgesic and opioid optimization strategies. We present a brief review of applicable statistics and definitions as impetus for prioritizing both analgesia and opioid exposure in surgical quality improvement. We then review recommended modalities at each phase of perioperative care. We showcase the value of interprofessional collaboration in implementing and sustaining perioperative performance measures related to pain management and analgesic exposure, including those from the patient perspective. Surgery centers across the globe should adopt an integrated, collaborative approach to the twin goals of optimal pain management and opioid stewardship across the care continuum.

One of the strongest motivators driving me through the past 6-12 months has been working with an incredible team to bring this publication into existence 💪#postoppain #opioidstewardship

mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/3/…

So I think it comes down to the risks vs. benefit for the particular patient, but many may have net benefit from a preop dose.

Let's use judiciously (note adverse effect profile and susceptible populations), but not abandon periop gaba based on this study.

#opioidstewardship