Articles tagged "Pain"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Opioid-Sparing Pain Management Improves Outcomes and Safety in Living Liver Donors.
D. Ladner,¹ E. Pomfret,² M. Simpson,² J. Guarrera,³ R. Fisher,⁴ A. Skaro,¹ T. Baker,¹ T. Curtis,¹ A. Daud,¹ B. Platt,¹ R. Kang,¹ N. Salehitezangi,¹ J. Holl,¹ M. Abecassis,¹ D. Woods.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; ³Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Richmond, VA.
BACKGROUND: As part of the ancillary four center study, to the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Cohort Study (A2ALL), over 75% of living liver donors…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Postoperative Pain Care in Living Liver Donors.
M. Mandell,¹ A. Smith,^2,6 D. Gordon,³ S. Holtzman,⁴ M. Dew,⁵ T. Howell,⁶ A. DiMartini,⁵ Z. Butt,⁸ M. Simpson,⁷ C. Freise,⁹ S. McCluskey,¹⁰ R. Fisher,¹¹ J. Guaerra,¹² K. Olthoff,¹³ E. Pomfret.⁷
¹U of Colorado, Denver; ²Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor; ³U of Washington, Seattle; ⁴U of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada; ⁵U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ⁶U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁷Lahey, Burlington; ⁸Northwestern U, Chicago; ⁹U of California at San Francisco, San Francisco; ¹⁰U of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ¹¹Virginia Commonwealth U, Richmond; ¹²Columbia U, New York; ¹³U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Postoperative pain (POP) is the strongest predictor of chronic pain syndromes (Katz and Seltzer, Expert Rev Neurother 2009), however little is known about POP…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Pre-Transplant Prescription Narcotic Use With Clinical Complications After Kidney Transplantation
N. Lam,¹ M. Schnitzler,² J. Tuttle-Newhall,² H. Xiao,² D. Axelrod,³ D. Brennan,⁴ V. Dharnidharka,⁴ M. Nazzal,² K. Lentine.²
¹Western University, London, ON, Canada; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; ³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH; ⁴Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Background: Associations of narcotic use before kidney transplantation with post-transplant clinical outcomes are not well described.Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of linked national registry…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Safer and More Effective Treatment of Acute Postoperative Pain in Living Liver Donors
D. Ladner,¹ R. Fisher,² J. Guarrera,³ E. Pomfret,⁴ M. Simpson,⁴ A. Daud,⁵ T. Curtis,⁵ E. Reyes,⁵ A. Skaro,¹ D. Woods.⁵
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ³Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Lahey Clinic, Boston, MA; ⁵CHS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
BACKGROUND: As part of Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Cohort Study (A2ALL), donors were found to experience significant pain post donation, and more than half…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Does Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Reduce Opioid Analgesic Requirements in the Post-Operative Period in Renal Transplant Recipients?
F. Afridi,¹ R. Coates,¹ S. Wright,² J. French,¹ D. Talbot,¹ S. Rita.²
¹Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom; ²Department of Anesthesia, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Renal transplant recipients are a challenge where pain management is concerned. The theory that transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block provides additional analgesic benefit reducing…