At the Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 7 to 9, William J. Long, MD, of Insall Scott Kelly Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicines in New York, discussed the ...

Numerous public health experts and politicians have dubbed the nation’s ongoing opioid overdose and addiction crisis the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. The scope of the crisis will ...

PHILADELPHIA — While recovering from major surgery, Black patients may be less likely to receive certain multimodal analgesia options and more likely to receive oral opioids than white patients, ...

Black patients may be more likely to be given oral opioids and less likely to be given certain multimodal analgesia options than white patients, according to research published by the American Society ...

After Black patients undergo a surgery, they are much more likely than their White peers to receive only an opioid for post-op pain relief, rather than a more nuanced combo of analgesics, a new study ...

(CNN) — Although a combination of certain pain medications has been found to be more effective than opioids alone at managing discomfort after surgery, Black patients are less likely to receive this ...

In late 2018, a handful of pediatric specialists with an interest in the nascent field of enhanced recovery after surgery, more commonly known as ERAS, gathered in Richmond, Virginia. It was the first ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Jeff Gadsden, MD: Hello, I'm Dr Jeff Gadsden, a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina. And with me is Dr Eliana ...

The goal is not to vilify opioids; they remain an essential tool for managing acute pain and, when used appropriately, can offer tremendous relief. Instead, our aim should be to wield these ...

Liposomal bupivacaine represents a significant advancement in postoperative pain management. By encapsulating bupivacaine in lipid vesicles, this formulation harnesses a biphasic release profile that ...

State-level social welfare policies may address disparities in arthritis-related joint pain prevalence and education for ...