Intraoperative Pain Management
- General Anesthesia
- Neuroleptic Anesthesia
- Local Anesthesia
Postoperative Pain Management
- Local Anesthetics
- Normal duration (1-6 hours)
- bupivacaine (Marcaine)
- lidocaine
- Extended duration (72 hours or more)
- liposomal bupivacaine (Exparel)
- Normal duration (1-6 hours)
- Indwelling Catheters
- Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications
- codeine (only available in generic form)
- fentanyl (Actiq, Duragesic, Fentora)
- hydrocodone (Lorcet, Lortab, Norco, Vicodin)
- hydromorphone (Dilaudid, Exalgo)
- meperidine (Demerol)
- methadone (Dolophine, Methadose)
- morphine (Avinza, Kadian, MS Contin, Ora-Morph SR)
- oxycodone (OxyContin, Oxyfast, Percocet, Roxicodone)
- oxycodone and aspirin (Percodan)
- tramadol (Ultram)
- Nonopioid (Non-narcotic) Pain Medications
- NSAIDS
- acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin)
- ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil)
- ketorolac (Toradol)
- naproxen
- Non-NSAIDS
- acetaminophen (Tylenol)
- acetaminophen injection (OFIRMEV)
- NSAIDS
Testimonials
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Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.
Last updated by on Friday, May 27, 2016 7:54 am