Acute Pain Management/Regional Anesthesia

Tiffany Tedore; Roniel Weinberg; Lisa Witkin; Gregory P Giambrone; Susan L Faggiani; Peter M Fleischut

doi:10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.005

Acute Pain Management/Regional Anesthesia

Anesthesiol Clin. 2015 Dec;33(4):739-51. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.005.

Authors

Tiffany Tedore¹, Roniel Weinberg¹, Lisa Witkin¹, Gregory P Giambrone¹, Susan L Faggiani¹, Peter M Fleischut²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, Box 124, New York, NY 10065, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, Box 124, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: pmf9003@med.cornell.edu.

PMID: 26610627
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2015.07.005

Abstract

Effective and efficient acute pain management strategies have the potential to improve medical outcomes, enhance patient satisfaction, and reduce costs. Pain management records are having an increasing influence on patient choice of health care providers and will affect future financial reimbursement. Dedicated acute pain and regional anesthesia services are invaluable in improving acute pain management. In addition, nonpharmacologic and alternative therapies, as well as information technology, should be viewed as complimentary to traditional pharmacologic treatments commonly used in the management of acute pain. The use of innovative technologies to improve acute pain management may be worthwhile for health care institutions.

Keywords: Acute pain; Costs; Management; Patient satisfaction; Regional anesthesia.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Acute Pain / economics
Acute Pain / therapy*
Anesthesia, Conduction / economics
Anesthesia, Conduction / methods*
Humans
Pain Management / economics
Pain Management / methods*
Patient Satisfaction / economics
Patient Satisfaction / statistics & numerical data