Well it has happened again.
A group of providers has discovered another way to stop the raging abuse
of drugs. Music. That’s correct. The very first sentence in a paper by a group
at the University of Pennsylvania, published in, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Volume 44, Issue 8, states,
“Music
medicine is a nonpharmacologic intervention that is virtually harm-free,
relatively inexpensive and has been shown to significantly decrease
preoperative anxiety.”
Really? Please say it ain’t
so!! When I am laying there waiting to
be sliced open by a surgeon holding something that could be found in Bob
Villa’s toolbox, I am sure that listening to Lionel Richie sing “All Night
Long” will take me to a place that a milligram or two of Versed won’t. Uh huh, sure it will. NOT!!
The FDA has now gotten hold of this well studied and thought
out paper and decided to deliver a megabuck grant to study mice prone to
falling asleep when listening to Led Zepplin, or maybe it was Whitney
Houston. Okay, not really. What happened to appropriate, well thought
out medical care. Yes, abuse of a
benzodiazepine can cause respiratory depression, however surgery is done in a
hospital or surgery center where patients are routinely knocked out and
breathing is done for them, not in a garage.
Additionally, how many of you reading this, have heard of an incident
where abuse of Versed in a surgical setting has caused respiratory depression?
I realize, and hopefully you do too, that I am being mildly,
maybe even moderately sarcastic, however I have to wonder has the medical world
gone bat#### crazy? Where has the
ability to think for oneself gone? How
about this one: A 2017 Journal of American Medical Association paper reached
this following conclusion, “To treat emergency room patients in acute pain, a
single dose of oral opioids is no better than drugs like aspirin and
ibuprofen.” I kid you not.
Perhaps the authors of this study were using
their own products? I have to ask, who
in the world goes to an ER in legitimate acute pain and receives an aspirin for
that pain? This is another example of
how the opioid hysteria has influenced the medical society. I am not saying that distribution and use of
controlled substances should not be appropriately done, however, keep me away
from the ER provider who wants to slip me 1000 mg of Tylenol vs one 15 mg
Oxycodone for a kidney stone.
That would
be like claiming the Boston Red Sox are better than the New York Yankees. Everyone knows that would not be true unless
the Yankees played with blindfolds on.
Anyway, welcome to fall everyone. Please enjoy your weekend. Say hi to someone you haven’t seen in a
bit. It will do you both good.
Thank you for using
Industry Lab as your toxicology lab. We
do appreciate your business.
Lance Benedict
President/CEO Industry Lab Diagnostic Partners
10/18/2019
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