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Dr. Amanda Ellington
Spread of ESP injection
She was able to finally have her surgery at the end of September performed by Memorial Medical Group Breast Surgeon Amanda Ellington, MD. As with most surgeries postoperative pain after mastectomy may persist in up to 60 percent of patients. Efforts to reduce postoperative pain and inflammation include a multimodal approach which aims to improve both short and long term pain. This multimodal approach includes administration of anti-inflammatory and narcotic pain medications in addition to more selective pain relief strategies including interventional anesthesia techniques.
A global pandemic, the strongest hurricane to every hit Louisiana and a follow-up hurricane two weeks later are all things JoAnn Johnson never would have imagined she would have to face, much less during a battle with breast cancer. Johnson had a mammogram in July and discovered she had breast cancer. Her doctors put together a plan and the first step was a double mastectomy, but then Hurricane Laura set her sights on Southwest Louisiana. “It was a crazy time,” Johnson recalls. “I evacuated to Oklahoma and was just really in a holding pattern with all the damage and power outages that had happened back home.”
Innovations
Dr. Kyle Nester
“In the age of the opioid epidemic crisis, our aim is to minimize and perhaps even eliminate the need for opioid medications while still providing excellent pain control and, in some instances, complete
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