Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2018 Alert FDA Warns Against Using Unapproved Meds in Implanted Pain Pumps The FDA alerts physicians over the risk for complications when using medications that ...

The pain pump is a small device implanted in under the skin near the abdomen of the patient. A catheter carries a controlled amount of pain medication directly to the area affected. Because the ...

The first pain pump on the market, The Pain Management Infusion Pump (Sgarlato Laboratories, Los Gatos, California), was introduced by Thomas Sgarlato, DPM, to control the postoperative pain of ...

would focus its mobile nursing team on providing free in-home care for high-risk patients with implanted pain pumps who lacked in-home health care insurance. Without this option, such patients ...