Perioperative Pain Control: Tools for Surgeons
Svider, Peter F. / Johnson, Andrew P. / Pashkova, Anna A. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were nearly 40, 000 opioid-related deaths in the U.S in the last year alone. These numbers have increased considerably for a variety of reasons, and the growing role of prescription drug abuse has been widely recognized. There has also been increasing consciousness of the lack of dedicated and formalized training dedicated to prescription of analgesics, particularly among...