Maine hospital provides alternative post-op pain treatment

Practice Management

The anesthesia department at Northern Light Blue Hill (Maine) Hospital is providing a continuous peripheral nerve catheter as an alternative to postoperative pain management, reports The Ellsworth American.

Three insights:

1. The hospital uses the ON-Q Pain Relief System developed by Avanos Medical, which aims to decrease patients' reliance on opioids.

2. The catheter transmits a measured dose of low-concentration local anesthetic to the nerves that recognize pain in an extremity.

3. Typically, the anesthetic is a non-opioid analgesic such as Ropivacaine and is stored in a flexible plastic reservoir, which is attached to a controller so the patient can adjust dosage according to their pain level.

"After completing diligent research my team of certified registered nurse anesthetist here at Blue Hill decided to work toward the goal of offering the continuous catheters to solve many issues associated with surgical pain," said Laura Schneider-Look, chief of anesthesia at the hospital.

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