Phases Across the Perioperative Continuum of Care

Perioperative care consists of a complex symphony of medical professionals, physical locales, processes, and temporal phases. This continuum begins previous to the day of surgery (DOS), continues across outpatient or itinerant stay, and extends through recovery and follow-up phases of care. A maximally effective institutional strategy for perioperative pain operation and opioid stewardship includes all phases and providers across this continuum. Though there’s no definitive substantiation- grounded authority, effective multimodal analgesia requires institutional culture and protocols for preadmission optimization, harmonious use of indigenous anesthesia, routine listed administration of non-opioid anesthetics and nonpharmacologic curatives, and reservation of systemic opioids to an “ as demanded” base at boluses acclimatized to anticipated pain and pre-existing forbearance.