I had the honor of being a keynote lecturer at the 2021 Association of Anaesthetists Winter Scientific Meeting. For this talk, I provided some historical background on various contributing factors to the U.S. opioid epidemic, the current state including the many legislative and regulatory responses, and potential opportunities to innovate in clinical care moving forward.
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Lessons Learned from the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
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Lessons learned from the
U.S. opioid epidemic
Edward R. Mariano, M.D., M.A.S.
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Chief, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
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National Leadership Is Required
Elements of Performance for LD.04.03.13
1. The hospital has a leader or leadership team that is responsible
for pain management and safe opioid prescribing and develops
and monitors performance improvement activities.
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Summary
• We discussed lessons learned from the U.S.
opioid epidemic and answered the following
questions:
–How did this happen?
–Where are we now?
–What do we do to move forward?
Editor's Notes
A recent study published by our group showed that less than ½ education materials given to patients mention opioid tapering or cessation