2018 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting-AANS/CNS Section on Pain, Question and Answer Session I

AANS/CNS Section on Pain, Question and Answer Session I

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In this video, a neurosurgeon from Louisiana raises concerns about the government's reduction of pain medication and the lack of understanding from non-doctors in making these decisions. The neurosurgeon discusses the conflicting guidelines from different entities and the difficulties faced by doctors in navigating these guidelines while providing adequate pain relief to patients. The discussion also touches upon the moral imperative to treat cancer pain aggressively and questions why the same urgency is not given to non-cancer pain. The video also includes a question about the percentage of opioid-related deaths from prescribed medications versus illicit drugs. The speaker mentions that the majority of deaths now are from illicit opioids, particularly fentanyl. The video concludes by noting that opioid prescribing has decreased since 2012, but opioid-related fatalities continue to increase.

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AANS/CNS Section on Pain, Question and Answer Session I

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neurosurgeon

government's reduction of pain medication

conflicting guidelines

opioid-related deaths

fentanyl