When patients are scheduled for surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, clinicians check the person’s prescription drug history embedded in the electronic health record. This history provides scores ...
When a patient cannot say how much pain they are in, such as when they are sedated, have dementia, or are nonverbal, clinicians turn to facial expressions to guide treatment. Tension, frowning, or ...
Understand 2026 guidelines for perioperative pain management in cardiothoracic, mastectomy, and abdominal surgeries.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For the first time in western Pennsylvania and possibly in the nation, patients at a local hospital can choose not to be given opioids before, during and after surgeries. Inside ...