ASA committee chair discusses guidelines for managing surgical pain for ‘complex patients’ on FOX News

David Dickerson, M.D., chair of ASA’s Committee on Pain Medicine, was quoted in the piece, where he discussed the guiding principles developed by ASA and 15 medical organizations to improve pain care in overlooked patients with chronic pain, substance use disorder, and opioid tolerance. "Patients with these complex issues may require additional care after surgery," he said. "When someone undergoes a surgical procedure and they have a substance use disorder, chronic pain or pre-operative opioid tolerance, their nervous system is different.”