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What is your approach to medication selection and titration for post-operative pain?

For instance, agents such as gabapentoids and muscle relaxants are widely used, but wondering if you have a more methodical approach?
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Hospital Medicine · University of Chicago
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My general approach to postoperative pain management is a stepwise multimodal strategy that prioritizes opioid-sparing therapy while tailoring medication choices to patient-specific and surgical factors. In practice, I try to balance three things: the expected pain mechanism related to the surgery, ...

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