Controlling pain helps to speed recovery following your operation. Your surgical team wants to help you to safely and effectively manage any pain that you may have after surgery. “Safe pain control” means using medication and other therapies to control pain with the least amount of side effects.

The Pain Management Webcast Package covers two individual webcast sessions presented at ACS Clinical Congress 2018 on Opioid-Sparing Practices in Surgery and one webcast on Opioid-Sparing Perioperative Pain Management.

The Perioperative Pain Management in Opioid-Tolerant Patients course was presented at ACS Clinical Congress 2017 and was part of a larger panel session focused on surgical perioperative strategies to reduce opioid consumption while maintaining safe and effective pain control.

The ERAS Protocols Improve Patient Outcomes and Reduce Opioid Use course was presented at the ACS Clinical Congress 2017 as part of a larger panel session focused on surgical perioperative strategies to reduce opioid consumption while maintaining safe and effective pain control. In this course, Thomas Aloia, MD, FACS, shares his best practices for implementing an opioid-sparing protocol during his patients' hepatectomies.