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The Future and Other Selected Subjects

The Future and Other Selected Subjects. C. Douglas Stewart, PA/C MBA Dir. of Interventional Pain Medicine Center For Pain Relief Charleston, West Virginia. We all are Still looking for quick pain relief. The Future, what does it hold. How are things changing. Faster More Automated

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The Future and Other Selected Subjects

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  1. The Future and Other Selected Subjects C. Douglas Stewart, PA/C MBA Dir. of Interventional Pain Medicine Center For Pain Relief Charleston, West Virginia

  2. We all are Still looking for quick pain relief

  3. The Future, what does it hold

  4. How are things changing • Faster • More Automated • Less personal intervention • What do we need??

  5. New delivery systems • Smaller in Displacement • Better Battery • The Pizo Battery • Dual Chamber Pump • Remote Programming and Evaluation

  6. Huey Lewis and the news“I want a new Drug” • Much research currently going on • Nerve Growth Factor 2004 on going • Lentiviral Gene Transfer 2011 • Alters gene expression in DRG • Capsasicin 2012 • Adenovirus engineered RNA 2012 • Nano Technology • Then of course the ultimate drug – • “PANACEACAINE”

  7. Does all this improve our care of the patient? • We definitely need to keep an eye on the horizon but the other one needs to be focused on the patient. • SAFETY!! • It’s easy to become distracted with the new, latest and greatest

  8. Bad things happen when we don’t pay attention, sometimes even when we do

  9. The “new standard” • It’s a moving target • How we do refills • New equipment available • Ultrasound? • Constant Vigilance • A “Plan”

  10. A must Read

  11. Mandates a checklist • Makes us stop • Evaluate • Everything correct • Verify • Sign off • This is not esoteric

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