A New Approach to Inpatient Pain Management Expands Anesthesia Expertise Hospital-Wide

Published in Anesthesiology News, this article describes how a new inpatient pain management protocol uses patient risk categories to enable physicians in and beyond the operating room to quickly select customized order-sets. This innovative, fingertip solution eliminates the “one size fits all” approach to pain management by defining evidence-based groups of medications, doses, and dosing intervals appropriate for patients stratified as normal, frail/elderly, dialysis, or OSA at risk.

Jonathan Markley, DO, NAPA Chairman of Anesthesia at East Orange General Hospital (East Orange, NJ) and Director of Regional Anesthesia at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (Paterson, NJ), developed the new protocol. NAPA promotes collaborative workplace cultures, and with Dr. Markley’s leadership, his new approach to pain management was quickly accepted hospital-wide. The protocol has transformed the way physicians assess and manage pain, and proved its effectiveness in reducing opioid prescriptions.

Medical staff appreciate how this new protocol makes it easy to select safe groups of multimodal order-sets in seconds. Read the article to learn more and see the full protocol.

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