Perioperative Regional Anesthesia Pain Outcomes in Children: A Retrospective Study of 3,160 Regional Anesthetics in Routine Practice
SPPM members from Stanford University recently published a retrospective study in The Clinical Journal of Pain, analyzing pediatric regional anesthesia from 2014-2021 and their perioperative outcomes. Follow this link to the study and their results: https://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/abstract/9900/perioperative_regional_anesthesia_pain_outcomes_in.135.aspx
Regional Anesthesia and Sickle Cell Crisis in Pediatric Patients
A recent review published in Pediatric Anesthesia discussed the current evidence supporting the use of regional anesthesia in sickle cell disease patients who are experiencing acute pain crisis. Given the challenges in controlled sickle cell disease pain, this study is worth a look. Follow link for the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pan.14801
Does Preoperative Mental Health Diagnosis Affect Pain Outcomes in Scoliosis Patients?
A new retrospective study published in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics has found that patients with preoperative mental health diagnosis, when compared to a control group, had significant differences in opioid consumption and duration of opioid use after surgery. Follow the link for the study: https://journals.lww.com/pedorthopaedics/abstract/2024/01000/does_a_preoperative_mental_health_diagnosis_affect.11.aspx
2023 AMA Overdose Epidemic Report
The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force continues to advance evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and physicians to help end the nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic. Physicians’ positive actions, however, are limited by an insufficient focus on meaningful policy implementation and enforcement to support affordable, accessible, evidence-based care for patients with […]
Association of Genetic Variants with Postsurgical Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses
A new study in Anesthesiology examines the association between genetic variants and their possible association with postsurgical pain. Provoking study with results that may be a bit surprising. Read the study here: https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/doi/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004677/139139/Association-of-Genetic-Variants-with-Postsurgical