As we wrap up 2021, we also wrap up the first six months of SolvingPain and the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway. Since launching in mid-June, SolvingPain.ca has been seen over 4,000 unique visitors who explored over 44,000 pages. We are thrilled with these numbers and look forward to even more healthcare professionals discovering and referencing the site in 2022.

As always, you can help spread the word about this important initiative on your professional social media networks, within your hospital’s communications or directly to your surgical colleagues via word-of-mouth. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or ideas on how to promote SolvingPain.ca.  

Ontario’s Anesthesiologists would like to take this moment to thank the various organizations and individuals who assisted with the creation review and promotion of SolvingPain.ca. They include: Dr. Chris Bailey, Teresa Bishara, Dr. Erin Boyton, Dr. Stanley Jeram, Dr. Claudia Malic, Dr. Allison Maciver, Dr. Steve MacLellan, Dr. Mark MacLeod, Ron McKerracher, Dr. Amber Menezes, Farida Roy, Dr. Kelly Vogt, Dr. Christine Walton, Hans Yun, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (Enhanced Recovery Canada), the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, the Ontario Orthopaedic Association and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

 An extra big “thanks!” goes out to Dr. Hance Clarke, Dr. Claude Laflamme and Dr. Colin J.L. McCartney, for their official endorsement of the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway.

We also need to recognize our volunteer-based Action Group. Led by Dr. David Neilipovitz and Dr. Collin Clarke, the Action Group was vital to nearly every aspect of SolvingPain.ca. Their hours of dedication to this project—in the middle of a pandemic at that—just shows their impressive professionalism and commitment to improving their patients’ lives. The key members of our Action Group include:

• Dr Elaheh Adly, Hamilton Health Sciences

• Dr. Anil Kumar Arekapudi, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital

• Dr. Fady Ebrahim, Hamilton Health Sciences & St. Michael’s Hospital

• Dr. Melanie Jaeger, Kingston General Hospital

• Dr Deepa Kattail, Hamilton Health Sciences; Twitter

• Dr. Brian Nishimura, Trillium Health Partners

• Dr. Sanjho Srikandarajah, North York General Hospital

• Dr. Senthil Thiyagarajan, Niagara Health; Twitter

• Dr. Sarah Tierney, The Ottawa Hospital—Civic Site; Twitter

• Dr. Kathryn Wheeler, formerly with The Ottawa Hospital; Twitter

Finally, one last thank you to all of SolvingPain.ca’s visitors. We hope that you have found the site to be beneficial to your practice and to your patients.

We wish all of our visitors, volunteers and supporters a wonderful, and safe, 2022!