Acute Pain Management in a Multi-site Trauma Patient.
Cureus
; 16(6): e61596, 2024 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-38962628
ABSTRACT
Pain management is often difficult in the setting of multi-site trauma such as that caused by motor vehicle accidents (MVA), which is especially compounded in the setting of polysubstance abuse. This often results in patients with poor pain tolerance requiring escalating doses of opioid therapy, which creates a vicious cycle. The use of peripheral nerve blocks (PNB) has been shown to decrease overall opioid consumption and can be used effectively to manage postoperative pain in this patient population. Our case report aims to highlight the importance of PNBs as part of a multimodal approach to pain management in patients with polytrauma in the setting of polysubstance abuse.
acute pain management; adductor canal block (acb); complex trauma mva (motor vehicle accident); local anesthetic systemic toxicity (last); multimodal pain management; opioid-sparing analgesia; paravertebral block (pvb); popliteal nerve block; substance use disorder (sud); ultrasound guided nerve block
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Cureus
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2024
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