Perioperative Pain Control: Tools for Surgeons

This comprehensive text is an easy-to-access reference that provides a foundation for understanding contemporary evidence-based practices relating to pain management in the perioperative setting. Chapters review the exponential increase in prescription drug abuse associated with the “opioid epidemic”; surgeons’ important role in managing perioperative and chronic pain in a variety of practice settings;  the role of quality improvement in patient safety initiatives; inadequate opioid prescribing education (OPE) in surgical training programs; and literature demonstrating the existence of evidence-based alternatives to opioids.
Written and edited by experts in the field of anesthesiology and pain medicine, Perioperative Pain Control: Tools for Surgeons is a practical resource for surgical trainees and surgeons of all specialties including general surgery, thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, urology, gynecology, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery.