Pain Management News

• How PAs Can Avoid Malpractice: Go Back to Practice Basics A thorough medical history that focuses on diagnostics can help PAs steer clear of medical errors and their legal ramifications, a medico-legal consultant advises.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Americans Try Many Things to Ease Chronic Back Pain The survey of 2000 US adults found that almost half of respondents (49%) are affected by pain at work, and 2 in 5 say that pain hampers their social lives.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• APA 2022 Can a Novel Med School Curriculum Curb the US Opioid Epidemic? A curriculum focused on opioid education improves knowledge and confidence about pain management and opioid prescribing among medical students, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Occult Hypoxemia More Common in Patients With Darker Skin? Black and Hispanic patients undergoing anesthesia may be more likely than White patients to experience occult hypoxemia, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways A new decision tree tool developed by an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) task force helps anesthesiologists manage their patients who have difficult airways.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• AUA 2022 AUA 2022: A Report From the Trenches Colorado urologist Henry M. Rosevear, MD, offers his take on the scientific highlights of this year's annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Does He Have Back Pain or Rheumatism? The search for evidence of inflammatory conditions is difficult, even for experts. One expert explains how this search can be successful.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Dopamine D1 Agonists May Aid Patients With Late-Stage Parkinson's The study covered in this summary was published on MedRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 18, 2022
• Long COVID Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors Millions of older adults are grappling with long COVID, yet the impact on them has received little attention. Research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022
• Doctor Accused of 'Fraudulent Concealment' Can't Be Held Liable Claim against hospital is halted as well.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Poisoned at Work: A Detective Story for Nephrologists A patient with kidney disease of unknown origin had mostly unremarkable findings. It was only when he mentioned having noticed white powder on his lunch that a diagnosis became clearer.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• AACE 2022 Spinal Cord Stimulation Durable for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy Randomized controlled trial shows durable relief of refractory painful diabetic neuropathy symptoms with the spinal cord stimulation device out to 18 months.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Cancer Patients Unaware of Their Increased Thrombosis Risk Greater knowledge about the risk is needed among healthcare practitioners and patients, particularly regarding primary and secondary prevention of thrombosis, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Bupivacaine Following Mohs Surgery Reduces Opioid Use Patients report lower pain and opioid use with a single injection of the local anesthetic compared with placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Idaho Announces $119 Million Opioid Crisis Settlement Republican Gov. Brad Little and Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said it's the second-largest consumer settlement in state history.
  Associated Press, May 13, 2022
• Using Anti-Inflammatory Drugs May Prolong Back Pain Steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen offer relief from acute pain but may actually increase a person's chances of developing chronic pain.
  WebMD Health News, May 13, 2022
• Colombia Court Approves Medically Assisted Suicide Colombia's constitutional court backed medically assisted suicide in a decision late on Wednesday, which advocates said makes it the first Latin American country to back death by suicide for those suffering serious or incurable illnesses.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• US Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 for the First Time The CDC said there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021, a 15% increase over the previous record of 93,655 set in 2020.
  WebMD Health News, May 13, 2022
• Consider Cancer as a Trigger for Deep Vein Thrombosis Examination of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia and deep vein thrombosis revealed chondrosarcoma of the tibia.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Stimulants Plus Buprenorphine for OUD a Double-Edge Sword? Stimulants may lead to better engagement in buprenorphine treatment at the cost of a modest increase in drug overdose risk in patients with opioid addiction.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022