Revolutionizing Post-Surgery Recovery: Effective Pain Management Tips
6 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube interview with Robert Whitfield MD about enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) strategies to reduce postoperative pain and nausea. He recommends preoperative medications (gabapentin the night before, celecoxib/Celebrex as a COX-2 anti-inflammatory, and Zofran for nausea) and describes use of peripheral nerve blocks under ultrasound plus targeted local tissue injections during surgery to provide dense anesthesia. The team aims for patients to wake with a pain score around 2–3 out of 10.
Questions this video answers
The night before surgery.
Celecoxib (Celebrex).
Ondansetron (Zofran).
About 2–3 out of 10.










