Pain Management
A 68-year-old female is scheduled for primary total knee arthroplasty. She has a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is concerned about postoperative nausea and constipation from previous surgeries. The anaesthetic team is planning a multimodal analgesia protocol. Regarding multimodal analgesia principles:
Mark each as TRUE or FALSE
Multimodal analgesia combines multiple analgesic agents with different mechanisms of action to achie...
The core components of multimodal analgesia typically include acetaminophen, NSAIDs or COX-2 inhibit...
Multimodal analgesia should only use opioids as first-line agents; NSAIDs are contraindicated in all...
Gabapentinoids reduce postoperative opioid consumption by 20-30% and are particularly effective for ...
ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) protocols incorporate multimodal analgesia as a key component...
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Click T (True) or F (False) for each option