Pain Control in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

This book provides a comprehensive review of the challenges, risk stratification, approaches and techniques needed to improve pain control in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). It addresses not only the management of acute perioperative pain but also describes modalities that could potentially reduc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rajput, Kanishka (Editor), Vadivelu, Nalini (Editor), Kaye, Alan David (Editor), Shah, Rinoo Vasant (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Academic and Non-academic Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospital Outpatient Departments
  • Opioid Epidemic
  • Current US Policy for Opioid Prescribing
  • Rationale and Goals for Optimal Pain Control in ASCs
  • Challenges of Pain Control in Ambulatory Surgery Setting
  • Assessment and Optimization of Available Resources for Pain Control
  • Benefits of optimum pain control in ASCs
  • Structuring Pain Control Regimens in ASCs
  • Preoperative Planning
  • Comprehensive Pain Management: Opioid Naïve Vs Opioid Tolerant
  • Risks and Benefits of Opioids in Chronic/Cancer Pain
  • Maximization of non-opioid multimodal therapy in ASCs
  • Use of Ultrasound in an Ambulatory Setting
  • Use of Regional anesthesia/Neuraxial anesthesia in ASCs
  • Ketamine infusions
  • Management of Perioperative Nausea and Intractable Pain in Outpatient Surgery
  • Sedation for Interventional Pain Procedures
  • Sedation and Analgesia for GI Procedures
  • Management of Perioperative Pain for IR Procedures
  • Management of Perioperative Pain for Bronchoscopy
  • Perioperative management of obstructive sleep apnea patients in an ambulatory setting
  • Special Considerations - Management of Pediatric Pain in an Ambulatory Setting
  • Pain management in former addicts on MAT (Medication assisted treatment)
  • Special Considerations - Medical Marijuana and Active Substance Abuse
  • Special Considerations - Indwelling Intrathecal Pumps and Spinal Cord Stimulators
  • Discharge from Recovery Room in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
  • Recovery Room Protocols for nursing in ASCs and HOPDs
  • Weaning protocols for Ambulatory Surgery
  • Role of a Focused Ambulatory Pain Specialist
  • Inclusion of mandatory pain management services in ASCs
  • New Vistas: Opioid Sparing Multimodal Therapy in the Post-Operative Period.