Originally published by our sister publication Anesthesiology News
New perioperative pain management guidelines were published after a two-year review process aided by the involvement of 14 professional healthcare societies, including the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and initiated by a task force on pain management from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The guidelines (Reg Anesth Pain Med 2022;47[2]:118-127) were designed to help standardize