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Opioid overdoses surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, a problem surgery professionals can help solve by paying greater attention to prescription opioid misuse and abuse.
Data suggest there may be no increased risk for an asymptomatic, COVID-19-positive patient to go forward with surgery, although more research is needed before surgeons can create evidence-based guidelines.
Some best practices included in COVID-19 pandemic safety guidance issued by federal and professional organizations are likely to continue even after the worst of the emergency is over.
Using an automated text messaging system as a communication tool proved to be handy for patient follow-up, specifically for ambulatory surgery patients who received a nerve block.
Total knee arthroplasty procedures are less likely to lead to successful same-day discharge among patients who are older, female, nonwhite, with a body mass index of 35 kg/m2 or higher, living with primary hypertension, and living with other comorbidities, according to the results of a recent paper.
Some patients will need pain control and monitoring beyond the 23 hours, 59 minutes recovery window CMS allows in an ambulatory surgery center. While there are no uniform solutions that solve all problems for everyone, there are some options that can help.
Financial Disclosure: Dr. Kay Ball, nurse planner, reports she is on the speakers bureau for AORN and Ethicon USA. The relevant financial
relationships listed have been mitigated. None of the remaining planners or authors for this educational activity have relevant financial
relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare
products used by or on patients.
