Download
1 / 5
50 likes | 69 Vues
Dr Gerald M Sacks has dedicated a significant amount of his time in educating the professionals. He makes them aware that if they are prescribing opioids to any patient to treat acute pain, there is a possibility that the patient might develop OIC.
E N D
• Dr Gerald M Sacks completed a residency in anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Chicago. • He was a resident in orthopedic surgery at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta. • Dr Sacks provides pain relief during and after an operation.
• The patients must be asked about the quality of pain, its intensity, how often it occurs, and what they are doing to increase their pain, whether pharmacologically, using physical therapy modalities or lifestyle changes. • He further shares that addressing patients with OIC needs to be the part of review system. • Moreover, the physicians need to ask the question in a manner so you can get appropriate answer from the patient.
• Dr Gerald M Sacks shares that you cannot agree more with the fact that the most common unmet need is that healthcare professionals do not have time or the knowledge base to effectively discuss the topic of OIC with patients who are on opioids. He has dedicated a significant amount of his time in educating the professionals. He makes them aware that if they are prescribing opioids to any patient to treat acute pain, there is a possibility that the patient might develop OIC. In the face of it, there are certain medications that effectively address and treat OIC. The peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonists are designed to treat this problem. • • • •
