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Perioperative nurses play an important role in overcoming challenges associated with inadequately controlled postsurgical pain and overreliance on opioids.
Perioperative nurses play a critical role in advocating for and improving postsurgical pain management, particularly in the context of opioid overreliance.
Highlights perioperative nurses as key advocates for multimodal pain strategies; leaves open prospective trials to quantify opioid reduction.
Achievement of adequate postoperative pain management is a critical challenge in health care, with an estimated three out of four adult surgical patients reporting moderate to extreme pain after surgery. Overreliance on opioids in acute care settings has persisted, despite well-known adverse side effects frequently associated with this class of drugs. Furthermore, patients with a history of chronic opioid use present additional challenges in terms of postsurgical pain management. Advances in the development of newer analgesic agents and anesthetic techniques may be useful in surgical patients with a history of chronic opioid use and in the overall surgical patient population. Systemic inefficiencies and problematic medical practice patterns can also have negative effects on perioperative pain management. As the surgical patient's primary advocate, perioperative nurses play an important role in overcoming these diverse challenges and addressing the problems associated with inadequately controlled postsurgical pain.
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Simpson et al. (2016) conducted a review in Postoperative pain. Perioperative pain management was evaluated. Perioperative nurses play an important role in overcoming challenges associated with inadequately controlled postsurgical pain and overreliance on opioids.
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