Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 Chad M Brummett Samer Narouze,MD,PhD,MMM Anesthesiology Journals ASRA Pain Medicine Nicholas Levy Felicia Cox FRCN 💙 💛 T Kyle Harrison Tobi Hunter Nabil Elkassabany MD MBA MSCE @SMudumbaiDoc Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine Infographic summary just came out! Check out # 3! 😁

Patient satisfaction is crucial for quality healthcare delivery. Stephens et al. analyze Press Ganey® Outpatient Medical Practice Survey responses to identify areas for improvement in an interventional spine clinic, such as communication & wait time. buff.ly/41U9mkR

Joining my colleagues from @NorthShoreWeb Department of Medicine for Grand Rounds this morning. John Kiriklakis, MD providing an overarching but detailed update on safe prescribing: epidemiology, CDC guidelines (12 recommendations), needs for IL clinicians. John P Erwin III MD MBA MACC (#BigPoppy )

Truly a team effort. One of the many benefits of publishing in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine is working with their social media editors and graphic artist to give key publications visibility and life beyond the page. Brian D. Sites, M.D., M.S. Eric Schwenk, M.D., FASA ASA® AMA

Addiction complicates pain management, but new guidelines offer help for 'complex patients' Cites new multi-society perioperative pain management principles published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine David Dickerson ASA® ASRA Pain Medicine foxnews.com/health/addicti… #FoxNews

"Patients with these complex issues may require additional care after surgery," said David Dickerson regarding new guidelines for managing surgical pain in patients with a history of #opioid abuse. Read more on Fox News: ow.ly/IXSR50OX4Pm

American Society of Anesthesiologists Consensus-Based Guidance on Preoperative Management of Patients (Adults and Children) on Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Receptor Agonists | American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) ⁦ASRA Pain Medicine⁩ ⁦ asahq.org/about-asa/news…

"Multiorganizational consensus to define guiding principles for perioperative pain management in patients with chronic pain..." bit.ly/3qUvH3S @DMdickersonMD Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Shalini Shah Eric Schwenk, M.D., FASA Gary Schwartz MD, FASA Raj Gupta, MD, FASRA ASRA Pain Medicine

In OR Manager, David Dickerson discussed median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) — a condition that causes mild to debilitating chronic abdominal pain that typically occurs after eating — to increase awareness of the underdiagnosed condition. ow.ly/l5H250P3VtM

Thank you for Spreading Awareness and Advocating for #MALSPatients..❤️🙏❤️ David Dickerson, Dr Christopher Skelly and Omar M Ghanem

Multiorganizational consensus on principles for perioperative pain management for patients with chronic pain, opioid tolerance, and substance use disorder: an infographic bit.ly/3Jzv4Dv @DMdickersonMD Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Eric Schwenk, M.D., FASA Raj Gupta, MD, FASRA ASRA Pain Medicine #infographic

Good luck to fellows starting their #pain #fellowship! Here are some tips in this thread 🧵 Hope you find this helpful. At the end, do what works best for you! Susan Moeschler MD Nasir Hussain MayoAnesthesiaResMN NANS-RFS & Young Neuromodulators ASRA Pain Medicine Mayo Clinic PM&R Residency Mayo Clinic Pain Medicine Lynn Kohan Trent Emerick

8/ “Embrace discomfort” You’re only spending a year to learn a new field. Whether it’s learning new physical exam skills, reading an MRI spine, or sharpening surgical skills, embracing discomfort will help facilitate growth, motivate ideas, and make this a positive experience.

Excellent discussion of setting up regional anesthesia and acute pain services by John W. Patton III, MD, MBA #CSASummerConf23 Cited multi-organizational pain management principles pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34552003/. Stressed design thinking, teams, protocols and persistence! 💪🏽 Success is an iceberg!

Grateful for the partnership and leadership of the ASA® exec team. It was great to connect this weekend with our CEO and future presidents, Committee on Pain Medicine members and peer pain societies at the annual meeting. Lots of work to do. Many updates forthcoming.

12 years on the bird app. #MyXAnniversary

Come join us in Vegas in mid January for the North American Neuromodulation Society annual meeting. I’m looking forward to discussing how guidelines and organizational advocacy efforts create a framework for practice and patient access. NANS Official

Oral bioavailability of ketamine is 8-20%, no way to get to anesthetic serum concentrations as seen in his autopsy with oral dosing. IV dose 1.5 weeks prior for depression not causal. Sublingual 25mg lozenge may have higher bioavailability 30-40% but far from anesthetic at 25mg

I can’t believe these new Medicare trigger point coverage policies. I am shocked that a lack of published evidence explicitly showing safety from ultrasound use makes it now investigational to use ultrasound. Blind injection in to a pec minor or piriformis muscle is negligent.