Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Apr 2023
How to report drug concentrations or classic pharmacokinetics in regional anesthesia and pain medicine: what information needs to be provided?
When reporting individual drug concentrations or proper pharmacokinetic data, it is important to adequately report the circumstances associated with sampling, storing, analysis methodology and pharmacokinetic modelling. If this is not done in sufficient detail it will be impossible to properly evaluate the validity of the results. The present text represents a suggested approach on what to report when you are contemplating to submit a manuscript to regional anesthesia and pain medicine, this to achieve relevant standards in this context.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Mar 2023
ReviewScoping review of early pain-related outcome domains and measurement instruments after degenerative lumbar spine surgery.
Optimization of perioperative pain interventions in lumbar spine surgery could reduce the incidence of acute and persistent postoperative pain and opioid consumption. Standardization in early outcome measurement provides a solid foundation for future clinical and research practices and should be integrated in core outcome sets for long-term treatment outcome evaluations. This scoping review provides an overview of outcomes used when evaluating early perioperative pain interventions after lumbar spine surgery. ⋯ This review portrays an extensive overview of outcome measurements used in perioperative pain management in lumbar spine surgery. A lack of consensus on the set of indicators exists. This scoping review is a call for action to create consensus on how to evaluate perioperative pain interventions in degenerative lumbar spine surgery.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Mar 2023
ASRA pain medicine consensus guidelines on the management of the perioperative patient on cannabis and cannabinoids.
The past two decades have seen an increase in cannabis use due to both regulatory changes and an interest in potential therapeutic effects of the substance, yet many aspects of the substance and their health implications remain controversial or unclear. ⋯ Specific clinical recommendations for perioperative management of cannabis and cannabinoids were successfully created.