Polypharmacy After Elective Orthopaedic Surgery
Polypharmacy is common, especially among older patients. Polypharmacy can lead to adverse patient outcomes and increased healthcare costs. After elective hip or knee arthroplasty, several new medications are prescribed, which can contribute to polypharmacy, although these medications are necessary in the postoperative period. Although some instances of polypharmacy may be appropriate, many are not. Nurse practitioners play a vital role in identifying and preventing inappropriate polypharmacy in the postoperative period and can develop individualized therapy plans for each patient to provide safe medication use in patients....
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Certification: Caring for Yourself
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Celebrate the Stars; Orthopaedic Legacy: What Will Your Legacy Be?
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New Certificants January–March 2020
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Nurses Caring for Soldiers: World War II
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Progressive Osteoarthritis of the Hip
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Demystifying Cannabis: A Review of Its Pharmacology, Use in Pain, and Safety Concerns
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Demystifying Cannabis: A Review of Its Pharmacology, Use in Pain, and Safety Concerns
The uses for cannabis and its synthetic derivatives continue to grow, as the regulatory status surrounding the drug becomes more legalized. Cannabis is composed of many chemical compounds, called cannabinoids, of which cannabidiol and 9-tetrahydrocannabinol have been studied for medicinal uses. As a modality for treatment of pain, cannabis may have benefit for use in treatment of neuropathic pain, with limited data for use in rheumatic pain. However, there are both short-term and long-term adverse effects with cannabis use that should be monitored in those who use cannabis for medicinal purposes, which include worsened anx...
Source: Orthopaedic Nursing - July 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Pharmacology Source Type: research
Evaluation of Outcomes Before and After Implementation of a Standardized Postoperative Care Pathway in Pediatric Posterior Spinal Fusion Patients
BACKGROUND:
Standardized pathways decrease variability and improve outcomes and safety.
PURPOSE:
The article aims to evaluate outcomes of a standardized postoperative care pathway compared with individual surgeon preference.
METHODS:
A review of patients prestandardization and poststandardization was performed. Patients between the ages of 10–21 years with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ICD-9 code 737.30) admitted to the hospital for posterior spinal fusion (CPT code 22630) were included in the study. The prestandardization group (25 patients) was enrolled from April 1, 2010, through March 30, 2011, and the pos...
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Clinical and Psychosocial Factors Over Time Following an Acute Low Back Pain Episode
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Clinical and Psychosocial Factors Over Time Following an Acute Low Back Pain Episode
CONCLUSION:
Findings from this study characterize factors potentially contributory to the development of chronic LBP over time. Those participants who developed chronic LBP had higher pain catastrophizing scores averaged across all time points in this study, suggesting it could be an interesting factor to target to improve LBP chronicity. (Source: Orthopaedic Nursing)
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Feasibility and Acceptability of a Self-Management Program for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Feasibility and Acceptability of a Self-Management Program for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
CONCLUSIONS:
Participants in the intervention group were highly satisfied with home visits (which included peer story-telling and goal setting) and telephone calls to support their daily home-based joint protection and self-management activities (which included self-monitoring and self-evaluation). To mitigate the fear of scammers, researchers should begin by building a trust relationship with participants. (Source: Orthopaedic Nursing)
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