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Archive > October, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 10

Inside Our Pain Pump Success

Providing continuous peripheral nerve blocks at home helps this facility convert inpatients to outpatients.

Brian M. Ilfeld, MD, MS

Infusion pumps have been used for years to provide continuous, site-specific analgesia after surgery. Until recently, however, they were only used in the inpatient setting because the pumps were large, heavy and complex. Today, lightweight, user-friendly, portable pumps, in both reusable and disposable varieties, are letting us deliver safe, effective analgesia to our outpatients, even after they"re discharged.

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