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Despite Risks and Scant Evidence, Muscle Relaxants Still Used to Treat Chronic Pain
The CDC has guidelines recommending that clinicians avoid using opioids to manage chronic noncancer pain.
JANUARY 14, 2025
Updated PONV Guidelines Advise a Combo of Antiemetics
For optimal treatment of PONV, clinicians should first establish patients’ risk factors and then implement a ...
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
National Guidance, Local Implementation: Considerations for Local Blood Culture Identification Guideline Development Using the BIOFIRE® Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2) Panel
The article outlines considerations for the implementation of locally developed testing and treatment guidelines ...
MARCH 31, 2023
Parenteral Nutrition Therapy: Assessment Tools and Guidelines
This pocket guide discusses nutritional assessment and requirements, parenteral nutrition (PN) formulation design, ...
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Pain Societies Release Guidelines for Cervical Spine Joint Pain
A multispecialty international working group has created new consensus practice guidelines on interventions for ...
MARCH 23, 2022
New International Guidelines to Aid Anticancer Drug Dosing in Patients With Kidney Dysfunction
A draft of new international guidelines on cancer drug dosing in patients with kidney dysfunction was previewed at ...
MARCH 7, 2022
IDSA Updates COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
The Infectious Disease Society of America gives a thumbs up to new monoclonal antibodies and oral therapies.
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Steroid Injection Therapy Does Not Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, New Guideline Suggests
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience issued a new set of recommendations on the use of steroid injections ...
JUNE 29, 2021
WHO Releases Pediatric Chronic Pain Guidelines, Advocates for Biopsychosocial Approach
New guidelines released by the World Health Organization highlight the need for a biopsychosocial approach to pain ...
JUNE 22, 2021
Alarming Increase Seen in Muscle Relaxant Use as Treatment for Chronic Pain
In what can be seen as a sign of a distressing trend considering current prescribing guidelines and the shortage of ...
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Multimodal Analgesia Model for Post–C-Section Halves Opioids Prescribed at Discharge
A multimodal analgesic approach to post–cesarean delivery pain management decreased the number of opioid ...
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Parenteral Nutrition Therapy: Assessment Tools and Guidelines
This review discusses nutritional assessment and parenteral nutrition formulation design and medication ...
JUNE 21, 2017
