VIDEO: Defining pain, nonmedical treatment may help minimize patient’s opioid use

ByAmanda T. Whitaker, MD

ByCasey Tingle

Fact checked byGina Brockenbrough, MA

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Opioid minimization starts with having a defined expectation of what pain looks like.
In addition to multimodal agents, nonmedical pain treatments include ice, elevation and distraction.

In this video from the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium Business & Leadership Symposium, Amanda T. Whitaker, MD, discusses best practices implemented at her institutions to decrease opioid exposure among pediatric patients.

“It starts with, number one, having a defined expectation and conversation before surgery or procedures on what pain looks like and different ways to minimize pain, whether that is distraction, ice, elevation, as well as the expected pain medication schedule,” Whitaker, associate professor at the University of California Davis and Shriners Hospital Northern California, told Healio.

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Disclosures: Whitaker reports being a consultant for Pacira Pharmaceuticals.

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VIDEO: Defining pain, nonmedical treatment may help minimize patient’s opioid use

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