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Dr Gerald Sacks strongly believes that it is the responsibility of the pain management practitioner to discuss and treat any adverse effects that may be caused by medications prescribed. They need to have a discussion with every patient who is on opioid about their bowel function.
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Dr Gerald Sacks Believes That OIC Must Be a Normal Part of Each Patient’s Visit
Dr Gerald Sacks Has Anesthesia as His Area of Expertise Dr Gerald Sacks has been practicing in anesthesia for over 39 years since graduating from University of Massachusetts Medical School and getting his license to practice. He completed a fellowship in pain management at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His research interests include neuropathic pain, psychosocial issues as they related to pain perception, and musculoskeletal, mechanical aspects of pain perception. He is specialized in pain management, hospice and palliative medicine, and perioperative medicine.
He Provides Pain Relief During and After an Operation Addressing the issues of opioid dependency, he believes that patients continue to take these medications far beyond the period of which time their pain was occurring. He strongly believes that it is the responsibility of the pain management practitioner to discuss and treat any adverse effects that may be caused by medications prescribed. They need to have a discussion with every patient who is on opioid about their bowel function.
He Shares That Opioid Induced Constipation Must Be a Normal Part of Each Patient’s Visit According to Dr Gerald Sacks, it is important that the practitioner makes the patients comfortable while phrasing this question. They must be asked about the quality of pain, its intensity, how often it occurs, and what they are doing to increase their pain, whether pharmacologically, using physical therapy modalities or lifestyle changes.
