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For many patients, the first 72 hours following surgery can be the most painful due to inflammation at the surgical site.1 Inflammation is a significant component of postoperative pain as it peaks around 24 hours after surgery and remains high through the first 72...
Opioid Addiction, Recent Posts, Television, Top Pain Reliefs
Originally posted on Medscape Robert Glatter, MD: Welcome. I’m Dr Robert Glatter, medical advisor for Medscape Emergency Medicine. Today we have Dr Paul Christo, a pain specialist in the Division of Pain Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in...
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For many patients, surgery can be painful, especially in the first 72 hours after surgery. 1 Healthcare providers have options available to them to treat postoperative pain, but those options don’t always provide patients with adequate pain relief. In fact, most local...
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Originally published on Fox News A record 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses and poisonings last year, driven by synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl Every day across the United States, news detailing horrific fentanyl-related deaths makes headlines as the nation...
In the News, Opioid Addiction, Print, Recent Posts
Originally published on wtopnews The nation’s opioid crisis hit record highs during COVID-19, but one expert in Maryland said even though the pandemic has eased, he doesn’t think the opioid situation will automatically move in the right direction. “We saw an increase...
In the News, Opioid Addiction, Recent Posts, Television
On the first National Fentanyl Awareness Day, KTVU’s Greg Lee is joined by John Hopkins University School of Medicine Professor Dr. Paul Christo to discuss the dangers of the...
