Multimodal Techniques: Managing Suboxone in the Perioperative Setting

Perioperative pain management in patients with chronic pain who are treated with long-term opioids can be difficult. Stanlies D’Souza, MD, the chief of the neuroanesthesia division at Baystate Medical Center/University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Springfield, describes one such challenging case of using multimodal analgesia preoperatively for a patient recovering from opioid dependency during the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, in San