SolvingPain & the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway
Join Our 2024 SolvingPain Review Panel
In 2024, we’ll be reviewing and if needed, updating the best practices found in the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway. If you are a member of Ontario’s Anesthesiologists and are interested in assisting with this straightforward task, please email us. Becoming a SolvingPain volunteer takes only a few hours a month, but it makes a powerful impact!
Meet SolvingPain
On June 8, 2021, Ontario’s Anesthesiologists launched the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway, the first phase of its SolvingPain initiative, at SolvingPain.ca.
SolvingPain was born out of the desire to help healthcare professionals in the fight against two of the biggest challenges currently facing Canada’s healthcare system: The opioid epidemic and the pain management crisis.
As a physician, you already know the tragic toll those challenges are having on Canadians and our healthcare system and how optimizing pain management for patients is now more important than ever. You also know how these two crises are interlinked and how through better pain management, we can improve patients’ experiences, reduce the potential for opioid misuse and lower everything from occurrences of chronic pain to costs to our healthcare system.
Thankfully, there is a growing body of best practices that dives into how opioids, co-analgesics and non-pharmacologic techniques can be used to optimize pain management. Unfortunately, these guidelines can often be cumbersome to access.
Enter the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway. The Pathway is an easy-to-access collection of multimodal and non-pharmacologic surgical pain management best practices for over 50 procedures. The Pathway's goal is to enable physicians to provide the best possible pain management for their surgical patients using evidence-based practices that also limit the potential for opioid misuse and abuse. We encourage you to incorporate SolvingPain into your practice and to share it with your colleagues.
Help SolvingPain Grow
While we’re proud of SolvingPain’s first phase, the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway, and how it quickly and simply it delivers evidence-based best practices, we are eager to take SolvingPain to the next level and grow the site into a more comprehensive digital tool that covers more forms of acute pain, as well as chronic pain.
To get there, we need funding support. We are looking for a partner who is interested in making a significant impact on health care in this country, including helping to reduce the roughly $40-billion-dollar burden chronic pain places on Canada annually. If you know of a person or organization that we should talk to about supporting SolvingPain, please help us get in touch with them. No lead is too small and we’re happy to make the initial contact with any potential sponsors.
Spread the Word About SolvingPain
We believe that the Pathway is a helpful new tool that will improve both patients’ experiences and outcomes with surgical pain while also playing a role in fighting Canada’s opioid epidemic. But to maximize this project’s impact, we need your help in getting the site in front of physicians and other healthcare professionals who work with surgical patients.
If you are active professionally on social media, please take a moment to share one of our infographics (click on the images above to download a copy).
Below is some sample copy we encourage you to share on social media. If you are posting on Twitter, please tag us @ON_Anesthesia
Have you explored Ontario Anesthesiologists' latest project, the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway? Easy and quick to use, it aims to improve surgical patients’ experiences with pain while fighting the Canadian opioid epidemic. Visit SolvingPain.ca to see it in action.
Spread the word about SolvingPain.ca & help improve surgical patient outcomes. RT this tweet & let #medtwitter know about the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway, @ON_Anesthesia’s new guide to best practices for perioperative pain management
Ontario Anesthesiologists' latest project, SolvingPain.ca, is striving to improve surgical patients' outcomes and experiences with pain while fighting the Canadian opioid epidemic. Check out the following infographic to see why it matters & why physicians should be using it.
Other ways to help spread the word about the Pathway and SolvingPain.ca include asking to have it mentioned in department/hospital newsletters/other communications and mentioning it verbally to your colleagues.
We sincerely appreciate all efforts made to help promote SolvingPain and the Pathway.
Thank You to SolvingPain’s Original Action Group
SolvingPain and the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway would not have been possible without the expertise and hard work of our volunteer action group, listed below. Their hours of ongoing dedication are greatly appreciated!
Dr. Melanie Jaeger, Kingston General Hospital
Dr. Deepa Kattail, The Hospital for Sick Children; Twitter
Dr. Kyle Kirkham, Toronto Western Hospital
Dr. David Neilipovitz, The Ottawa Hospital
Dr. Brian Nishimura, Trillium Health Partners
Dr. Razvan Purza, Michael Garron Hospital
Dr. Sanjho Srikandarajah, North York General Hospital
Dr. Senthil Thiyagarajan, Niagara Health; Twitter
Dr. Sarah Tierney, The Ottawa Hospital—Civic Site; Twitter
Dr. Vatsal Trivedi, Trillium Health Partners; Twitter
Dr. Kathryn Wheeler, The Ottawa Hospital
Dr. Elaheh Adly, Hamilton Health Sciences
Dr. Liban Ahmed, Trillium Health Partners
Dr. Anil Kumar Arekapudi, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
Dr. Elisheva Chernick, Strathroy-Middlesex General Hospital, locums for Meno Ya Win Health Centre (Sioux Lookout) & La Verendrye Hospital (Ft. Frances)
Dr. Collin Clarke, St. Joseph’s Health Care London
Dr. Julian deBacker, Resident at the University of Toronto
Dr. Tania Di Renna, Toronto Academic Pain Management Institute
Dr. Fady Ebrahim, Hamilton Health Sciences & St. Michael’s Hospital
Dr. Sylvain Gagné, The Ottawa Hospital-General
Dr. Chris Harle, London Health Sciences Centre University Campus