
Avoid opiates after surgery
Better pain management. Better outcomes. Brought to you by the SAGES Opioid Task Force
Resources to Optimize Safe Pain Management
Improving quality patient care with practical tips and information for surgeons to reduce opioid prescriptions while ensuring pain management for their patients.
PREOPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS
Set expectations for patients and prepare them for surgery. Click here for resources.
INTRAOPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS
Blocks (videos) and techniques. Click here for videos.
POSTOPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS
Prescribing recommendations and more. Click here for resources.
National Opioid Take-Back Day October 26th!
October 26th is National Opioid Take Back Day! SAGES is dedicated to promoting patient safety, including the safe disposal of opioids. Be sure to encourage your patients to participate in Take Back Day. They can find disposal sites and more information here.

Free SAGES Opivoid Actvity: 8 CME credits to meet DEA/MATE Act!
The SAGES OpiVoid™ Activity is a FREE online enduring activity providing 8-hours of MATE Act-required training for DEA-registered surgeons and members of the surgical team on the prevention, recognition, and care of people with substance use disorders including those with concurrent pain and/or medical co-morbidities. This program is focused on surgical issues related to substance use disorders, effective treatment planning, and pain management and substance misuse.
This activity is FREE for SAGES Members!
- Go to www.sages.org/login
- Enter your credentials and click LOG IN.
- From the user panel, click Access Organization Wide Learning System (OWLS).
- The OWLS dashboard will appear.
- After logging in, click Catalog from the menu or Browse All from the dashboard.
- Type OpiVoid into the search bar.
- Click Continue to enroll or View Details to learn more about the course.
Brought to you by the SAGES QOS Committee and OpiVoid™ Task Force
Activity Chair: Gina Adrales, MD, MPH
QOS Committee Chair: Deborah Keller, MD, MS
Task Force Reviewers: Anjali Gresens, MD; Nabajit Choudhury, MD; Julio Flavio Fiore Junior, MSc, PhD
OpiVoid™ Videos
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Novel Pain Management for Thoracic Surgery J Lackey R Craner
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Do Epidurals Have Role in ERAS R Craner
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Blocks for Mastectomies B Pockaj
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Spinals and ERAS A Jacobs
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Quadratus Lumborum Block V Koyyalamudi
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How to Transversalis Fascia Block 2 T Young Fadok
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How to Transversalis Fascia Block 1 T Young Fadok
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How to TF Block T Young Fadok
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A New Block - Transversalis Fascia Block T Young Fadok
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Post Operative IV Ketamine N Schroder
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Infusions - Ketamine, Lidocaine, Magnesium L Misra
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US Guided TAP and Rectus Blocks
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How To US View Rectus Muscle
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LAP Guided TAP Block
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US Guided TAP Block
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US TAP Video Anatomy
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US TAP Video Needle
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US TAP Video Injecting
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LAP TAP - Why it is Not Working
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