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At the 48th Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine meeting, effective pain management during breast cancer surgery was discussed. Due to breast tissue’s complex nerves, anesthesia can prove difficult. With any surgery, pain control is critical and can lower chronic pain risk. As...
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It’s shocking:
- Among high income countries, United States women have THE highest maternal death rates
- Among those likely to die from complications related to pregnancy, Black women are nearly 3 times more at risk than white
In an effort to change those scary facts, the American Association of...
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In an article in the Cell journal, scientists from China and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have researched the structural framework of opioid receptors in an effort to build better pain management and limit side effects. “This collaboration revealed conserved, or shared...
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Can psilocybin—a hallucinogenic chemical obtained from mushrooms—improve mental health in struggling Veterans? Arizona’s legislature may grant $30 million to help researchers find solutions via controlled trials. By studying whole mushrooms and their 100s of compounds, vs the synthetic, 1 molecule...
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A survey of over 1700 adults (aged ≥18), from a representative sample from 36 states and DC, asked about cannabis use for relief of chronic pain. The results, in JAMA Network Open, found the following:
- 31.0% used cannabis for pain management
- 94.7% also utilized ≥1 pharmacologic pain treatment ...
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For extended relief of postoperative acute pain, cryoneurolysis—providing temporary analgesia through the use of extremely low temperatures to reversibly ablate a peripheral nerve—has been proven effective, but can it also help acute worsening in nonsurgical inpatients? Researchers, publishing their...
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Pain management concerns hit the TikTok crowd. Women are expressing their displeasure with the lack of pain management care when receiving an intrauterine device for birth control. Traditionally, during placement of an IUD, the patient does not receive anesthesia. According to OBGYN Dr. Shannon M...
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Does cannabis use impact levels of anesthesia during surgery? The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine) has developed guidelines for screening patients, presurgery, for cannabis use. Use of cannabis—whether recreational or medicinal—can interact and affect...
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Can the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam (LEV) work as a pre-emptive analgesic for those undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy? How would LEV impact general anesthesia during surgery and use of fentanyl postsurgery? Researchers explored these questions and published findings in Cureus. 60 minutes...
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Jacques Cousteau said, “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." Water enriched with hydrogen molecules, which has had positive results when used as treatment in Alzheimer’s disease as well as depression, is now being studied for potential treatment of neurologic pain and its...