Welcome!

Thank you for taking to the time to visit the Perioperative Pain Management Pathway, a project by Ontario’s Anesthesiologists.

As experts in pain management, we felt that creating this living repository of evidence-based, perioperative pain management best practices was a natural project for our Section to undertake. We believe that this site will help empower Canadian healthcare professionals to make high quality pain management decisions, resulting in better patient experiences and outcomes while simultaneously reducing the number of unnecessary opioids in the community. 

Please note that this site is very much a work-in-progress and that we have ambitious plans for it. The Perioperative Pain Management Pathway is also the first phase of our broader SolvingPain initiative, which will eventually tackle better management of chronic pain as well as other forms of acute pain. To learn more about this site and the broader SolvingPain project, please visit our About page.

We hope that you find this website simple, easy-to-use and most importantly, helpful. If you are a Canadian healthcare professional, we would love your support in spreading the word about SolvingPain.ca. If possible, please share our URL, SolvingPain.ca, with your colleagues. We would also love to hear your feedback about this project.

Before I sign off, I’d like to thank the following people and organizations for their assistance in reviewing SolvingPain and providing best practice recommendations: Dr. Chris Bailey, Teresa Bishara, Dr. Erin Boyton, Dr. Stanley Jeram, Dr. Claudia Malic, Dr. Steve MacLellan, Dr. Mark MacLeod, Ron McKerracher, Dr. Amber Menezes, Farida Roy, Dr. Kelly Vogt, Dr. Allison Wall, 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.

I also need to acknowledge the countless hours of work and support provided by our Pain Management Project Action Group. Without them, this project would not have been possible: Dr. Elaheh Adly; Dr. Anil Kumar Arekapudi; Dr. Elisheva Chernick; Dr. Julian DeBacker; Dr. Tania Di Renna; Dr. Fady Ebrahim; Dr. Sylvain Gagné; Dr. Paul Gill, Dr. Chris Harle; Dr. Melanie Jaeger; Dr. Deepa Kattail; Dr. Kyle Kirkham; Dr. Brian Nishimura; Dr. Sanjho Srikandarajah; Dr. Senthil Thiyagarajan; Dr. Sarah Tierney and Dr. Kathryn Wheeler.

My final thank-you is reserved for our Pain Management Project leads, Dr. David Neilipovitz and Dr. Collin Clarke. Their guidance, creativity and most importantly, perseverance was crucial for bringing this project to life.

Dr. Monica Olsen
Anesthesiologist, Trillium Health Partners
Chair, Ontario’s Anesthesiologists, a Section of the OMA