More Education Needed to Increase Use of Intrathecal Drug Therapy

Patients with chronic pain who are switched to intrathecal drug therapy experience decreases in pain scores and oral opioid use, according to a new retrospective chart review. However, the therapy isn’t used because many doctors aren’t comfortable with the devices, Anjum Bux, MD, the director of chronic pain management at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center and Harrison Medical Center, in Danville and Cynthiana, Ky., respectively, told Pain Medicine News. Centers of excellence,