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Educating Nurses on Intravenous Lidocaine for Postoperative Pain Management. Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses Hunter, O. O., Wong, A. n., Leng, J. n., Mariano, E. R. 2020

Abstract

As healthcare practitioners continue to search for multimodal analgesic therapies to reduce postoperative opioid requirements, surgical ward nurses need to stay up to date on the status of emerging therapies. One of these is intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain management. Unfortunately, there is a lack of resources to assist surgical ward nurses who are unfamiliar with lidocaine infusions for pain. This article aims to review the pharmacology of intravenous lidocaine for pain management, describe an experience of a university-affiliated Veterans Affairs hospital with implementation of intravenous lidocaine on the surgical ward, and suggest practical tools that can be used to develop protocols and educational content for nurses managing intravenous lidocaine infusions in the postoperative period.

View details for DOI 10.1016/j.pmn.2020.09.011

View details for PubMedID 33132041