Interventional pain therapies are a proven modality in the battle against the opioid epidemic. Overall patient outcomes will suffer, and healthcare costs will increase without these at our disposal.
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Patrick Rask
6 years ago
I support the utilization of every tool at our disposal in order to help patients with Chronic Pain.
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Nadeem Moghal
6 years ago
There is tremendous pain relief without opioid treatment available. Patients and physicians must know about them to enhance quality of life without opioid risks (which put patient families at risk at times more than the patient)
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David W Lee
6 years ago
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Interventional procedures are what allow patients who have failed conservative management a chance to avoid costly surgery associated with more severe complications. In cases where surgery is not an option the use of interventional procedure is even more important to ensure that patients pain level is manageable. In certain cases this may lend to less reliance on opioids and improved ability to participate in therapy.
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Vincent Carlesi
6 years ago
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Without interventional pain procedures our pain patients would not be able to obtain the highest quality of pain control. They look forward to the additional relief they obtain from them and would not be able to perform their ADL's without them.
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Monica Hamdan
6 years ago
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There are interventional pain management therapies that are alternatives to opiates for pain control. Injection therapy and spinal cord stimulation are safe and effective and allow opiates to be kept a a minimum restoring function and improving pain.
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Cathy Maxwell
6 years ago
The Bridge is the most effective and humane way to treat opioid withdrawal. I have seen it in a clinical setting and was astonished at its efficacy. There is an urgent need for device and needs CDC protocols written for opioid withdrawal as a part of addiction treatment and acute pain control.
This device is a God send, especially at a time when an opioid epidemic is growing in the U. S. at an alarming rate. Please act quickly, people are dying from this epidemic daily. The Bridge has been FDA approved for years. Please, please CDC, write the protocols and recommendations. Give physicians and treatment facilities this invaluable tool to help addicts gently withdraw from opioids and others have their acute pain successfully alleviated without narcotics.
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Emily Hagn MD
6 years ago
please add interventions as a means to decrease pain and subsequent opioid prescribing
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COREY W HUNTER
6 years ago
We cannot continue to empower insurance companies to dictate care based on their own guidelines that are driven by cost instead of evidence or patient outcomes. We as physicians should have the ultimate say in what is right for our patients, not a biased 3rd party
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Rahul Anand MD
6 years ago
The FDA and CDC have taken essentially all our pain medicine tools to assist patients with acute and chronic pain. They have put black box warnings on NSAIDs, opioids, neuropathic medications (gabapentin), etc. This essentially leaves us with interventional pain managment options. If you take this away, I guarantee the CDC will be the sole cause of a Suicide Pandemic already occuring, chronic Depressive states, less work capacity and productivity (which effects GDP), and overall well being. If anything, interventional spine injections needs to be reinforced, advanced with stem cell therapies, and allowed with out precertification in this country. Insurance companies should not be the deterring agents as well. I hope you listen to the experts such as myself and make the medically ethical decision...
Rahul Anand MD.
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Christine Rademacher RN
6 years ago
We urge the CDC to advocate for patients by ensuring cost containing implementation and treatment for opioid-sparing therapy.
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Tony Sisti
6 years ago
This is a miraculous tool
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Arturo C Taca Jr MD
6 years ago
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FDA grants marketing authorization of the first device for use in helping to reduce the symptoms of opioid withdrawal in 2017. Still no mention of such therapies in current guidelines.
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Mohan Vodapally
6 years ago
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Chronic Pain is a disease like hypertension and heart disease and other chronic ailments and needs consideration for for comprehensive treatment options that include a balanced approach of medical (inclusive of opioid treatment) and interventional Pain management.
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Eugene Koshkin
6 years ago
Please control the rising costs of these therapies.
Interventional pain therapies are a proven modality in the battle against the opioid epidemic. Overall patient outcomes will suffer, and healthcare costs will increase without these at our disposal.
I support the utilization of every tool at our disposal in order to help patients with Chronic Pain.
There is tremendous pain relief without opioid treatment available. Patients and physicians must know about them to enhance quality of life without opioid risks (which put patient families at risk at times more than the patient)
Interventional procedures are what allow patients who have failed conservative management a chance to avoid costly surgery associated with more severe complications. In cases where surgery is not an option the use of interventional procedure is even more important to ensure that patients pain level is manageable. In certain cases this may lend to less reliance on opioids and improved ability to participate in therapy.
Without interventional pain procedures our pain patients would not be able to obtain the highest quality of pain control. They look forward to the additional relief they obtain from them and would not be able to perform their ADL's without them.
There are interventional pain management therapies that are alternatives to opiates for pain control. Injection therapy and spinal cord stimulation are safe and effective and allow opiates to be kept a a minimum restoring function and improving pain.
The Bridge is the most effective and humane way to treat opioid withdrawal. I have seen it in a clinical setting and was astonished at its efficacy. There is an urgent need for device and needs CDC protocols written for opioid withdrawal as a part of addiction treatment and acute pain control. This device is a God send, especially at a time when an opioid epidemic is growing in the U. S. at an alarming rate. Please act quickly, people are dying from this epidemic daily. The Bridge has been FDA approved for years. Please, please CDC, write the protocols and recommendations. Give physicians and treatment facilities this invaluable tool to help addicts gently withdraw from opioids and others have their acute pain successfully alleviated without narcotics.
please add interventions as a means to decrease pain and subsequent opioid prescribing
We cannot continue to empower insurance companies to dictate care based on their own guidelines that are driven by cost instead of evidence or patient outcomes. We as physicians should have the ultimate say in what is right for our patients, not a biased 3rd party
The FDA and CDC have taken essentially all our pain medicine tools to assist patients with acute and chronic pain. They have put black box warnings on NSAIDs, opioids, neuropathic medications (gabapentin), etc. This essentially leaves us with interventional pain managment options. If you take this away, I guarantee the CDC will be the sole cause of a Suicide Pandemic already occuring, chronic Depressive states, less work capacity and productivity (which effects GDP), and overall well being. If anything, interventional spine injections needs to be reinforced, advanced with stem cell therapies, and allowed with out precertification in this country. Insurance companies should not be the deterring agents as well. I hope you listen to the experts such as myself and make the medically ethical decision... Rahul Anand MD.
We urge the CDC to advocate for patients by ensuring cost containing implementation and treatment for opioid-sparing therapy.
This is a miraculous tool
FDA grants marketing authorization of the first device for use in helping to reduce the symptoms of opioid withdrawal in 2017. Still no mention of such therapies in current guidelines.
Chronic Pain is a disease like hypertension and heart disease and other chronic ailments and needs consideration for for comprehensive treatment options that include a balanced approach of medical (inclusive of opioid treatment) and interventional Pain management.
Please control the rising costs of these therapies.
Greatly Needed.