MidwestRadOnc
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What do you do for pain management for your patients for SpaceOAR? I was using Ativan and Percocet but was thinking to switching something like Pro-Nox to increase patient comfort.
During the procedure or post-procedure?
Mixing benzos and opiates is definitely not ideal. Our specialty in general ridiculously overuses benzos IMO. These are extremely dangerous drugs that should never be started on 99% of the people who have them on their med list. There's nothing I hate more than being goaded into a prescription for 35 ativan for daily mask tolerance. I see colleagues do this without a second thought and I am SMH. Of course half the consults I see have PRN norco, xanax, and adderall on their med list prescribed by their PC(N)P, and of course "medical" marijuana too. Life would be easier if I just stopped caring.