Pain Management Best Practices from Multispecialty Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Crises-Evaluating the Risk of Infection Associated with Corticosteroid Injections

Jatinder S Gill^{1

2}, Janis L Breeze³, Thomas T Simopoulos^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Comment

Jatinder S Gill et al. Pain Med. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 1;21(8):1730-1731.

doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa167.

Jatinder S Gill^{1

2}, Janis L Breeze³, Thomas T Simopoulos^{1

2}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Comment on

Pain Management Best Practices from Multispecialty Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Crises.
Cohen SP, Baber ZB, Buvanendran A, McLean BC, Chen Y, Hooten WM, Laker SR, Wasan AD, Kennedy DJ, Sandbrink F, King SA, Fowler IM, Stojanovic MP, Hayek SM, Phillips CR. Cohen SP, et al. Pain Med. 2020 Nov 7;21(7):1331-1346. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa127. Pain Med. 2020. PMID: 32259247 Free PMC article.

1. Cohen SP, Baber ZB, Buvanendran A, et al. Pain management best practices from multispecialty organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and public health crises. Pain Med 2020; ( doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa127). - PMC - PubMed
1. Corcoran T, Kasza J, Short TG, et al; ENIGMA-II Investigators. Intraoperative dexamethasone does not increase the risk of postoperative wound infection: A propensity score-matched post hoc analysis of the ENIGMA-II trial. Br J Anaesth 2017;118(2):190–9. - PubMed
1. Richardson SS, Schairer WW, Sculco TP, Sculco PK.. Comparison of infection risk with corticosteroid or hyaluronic acid injection prior to total knee arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2019;101(2):112–8. - PubMed
1. Sytsma TT, Greenlund LK, Greenlund LS.. Joint corticosteroid injection associated with increased influenza risk. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes 2018;2(2):194–8. - PMC - PubMed
1. Tokars JI, Olsen SJ, Reed C.. Seasonal incidence of symptomatic influenza in the United States. Clin Infect Dis 2018;66(10):1511–8. - PMC - PubMed