Conclusion
Acute pain management is the responsibility of the emergency physician. Multimodal pathways that allow clinicians a method to tailor pain management to the needs of the patient will reduce the reliance on opioid-only algorithms and improve patient care. Our multidisciplinary model for treating pain from acute appendicitis has proved successful due to a non-siloed approach to offering best practices to our patients.
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