Post-Operative Multimodal Pain Management
Academic Level at Time of Presentation
Senior
Major
Nursing
Presentation Format
Poster Presentation
Abstract/Description
There is an increasing opioid epidemic in the United States. Kentucky is among one of the States where the epidemic is expanding and worsening at a detrimental rate. The rate of abusers who were prescribed these drugs during hospital stays is at an all-time high and therefore, physicians and nurses are in a vulnerable position to either exacerbate the epidemic or initiate changes to the way pain is treated to ultimately decrease the amount of chronic users and abusers born from pain treated in the hospital. To combat this epidemic, a proposed multimodal pain management protocol for post-operative pain has been created to increase the use of non-pharmacologic means of treating post-operative pain and non-opioid analgesics or anti-inflammatory medications before administering opioids. If pain is still undertreated, concurrent use of these practices with opioid analgesics should be continued to decrease pain. Studies have shown that a multimodal approach to treating pain not only decreases the amount of opioids consumed and therefore, decreases the amount of addiction, but also is an overall superior treatment for post-operative pain than opioid analgesics alone.
Fall Scholars Week 2019 Event
Evidence Based Best Practices in Clinical Healthcare
Post-Operative Multimodal Pain Management
There is an increasing opioid epidemic in the United States. Kentucky is among one of the States where the epidemic is expanding and worsening at a detrimental rate. The rate of abusers who were prescribed these drugs during hospital stays is at an all-time high and therefore, physicians and nurses are in a vulnerable position to either exacerbate the epidemic or initiate changes to the way pain is treated to ultimately decrease the amount of chronic users and abusers born from pain treated in the hospital. To combat this epidemic, a proposed multimodal pain management protocol for post-operative pain has been created to increase the use of non-pharmacologic means of treating post-operative pain and non-opioid analgesics or anti-inflammatory medications before administering opioids. If pain is still undertreated, concurrent use of these practices with opioid analgesics should be continued to decrease pain. Studies have shown that a multimodal approach to treating pain not only decreases the amount of opioids consumed and therefore, decreases the amount of addiction, but also is an overall superior treatment for post-operative pain than opioid analgesics alone.