Why pharmacists should manage pre-operative opioid use
Patients are “crying out” for help with opioid dose reduction according to evidence gathered during the OpioidHALT study and the impressive results have led to funding of $1.5… read more.
Patients are “crying out” for help with opioid dose reduction according to evidence gathered during the OpioidHALT study and the impressive results have led to funding of $1.5… read more.
The results of the OpioidHALT pilot study show that 90% of patients reduced their opioid doses by at least 50% compared with 17% in the control group and… read more.
The OpioidHALT intervention is tailored to the needs of individual patients and evaluated for safety by a pain specialist. Shared decision-making, with the patient, is an important feature… read more.
Opioid doses can be successfully reduced by a pharmacy-led intervention, according to a randomised study led by Dr Shania Liu and Dr Jonathan Penm at the University of… read more.
PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation announced FDA 510(k) clearance of its next-generation platform, the HYDROS Robotic System. Leveraging insights from over 50,000 procedures, HYDROS features FirstAssist AI treatment planning, advanced… read more.
Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced that DePuy Synthes, The Orthopaedics Company of Johnson & Johnson, has launched its TriLEAP Lower Extremity Anatomic Plating System, a comprehensive system with… read more.
A new study from UC Davis Health could help to increase the supply of donor kidneys. Researchers have found that transplant patients who receive kidneys infected with the parasite toxoplasma… read more.
The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) has unanimously called for a review of perioperative clinical trial designs in resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to include assessment… read more.
Nearly nine months of joint replacement surgery has been lost – around 160,000 fewer operations – since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by… read more.
Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people face barriers to accessing surgery and to the health system in general, describe authors in two new research papers published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association… read more.
Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced that DePuy Synthes, The Orthopaedics Company of Johnson & Johnson, has received 510(k) FDA clearance for the clinical application of the VELYS™ Robotic-Assisted… read more.
A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, reveals that computer software that helps inform clinicians’ decisions… read more.
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