Opioid Free Anesthesia (on-demand)-Presentation Recording

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Dr. Ann Schreier welcomes viewers to a webinar titled "Just a Fad, You Decide: Opioid-Free Anesthesia." The webinar is sponsored by the Providers Clinical Support System for Opioids and provided through the American Society for Pain Management Nursing. The session is approved for nursing CEU credits and attendees must complete a survey to receive the credits. The speaker, Katie Hornbaker, a board-certified CRNA, discusses opioid-free anesthesia and its benefits. She explains that opioid-free anesthesia, also known as opioid-sparing anesthesia, uses a multimodal approach to manage pain without opioids. Hornbaker discusses the inflammatory process and central sensitization that occur during surgery and cause pain. She explains how opioid-free anesthesia blocks pain from multiple pathways while avoiding the negative side effects of opioids. Hornbaker also discusses the use of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in conjunction with opioid-free anesthesia and provides examples of specific blocks for different surgeries. She highlights the importance of pain management in the postoperative period and the benefits of opioid-free anesthesia, including increased patient satisfaction, enhanced recovery, reduced need for overnight stays, decreased overall costs, and decreased risk of post-operative complications, addiction, and chronic pain. Hornbaker concludes by discussing the positive effects of opioid-free anesthesia on cancer recurrence and metastasis. She answers questions from the audience and urges providers to consider opioid-free anesthesia as a way to provide superior care and combat the opioid epidemic.

Keywords

opioid-free anesthesia

multimodal approach

pain management

ultrasound-guided nerve blocks

patient satisfaction

reduced need for overnight stays

decreased risk of post-operative complications

addiction

opioid epidemic