Dr. Laurence Brian Ready MD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
315 Martin Luther King Jr Way Tacoma WA, 98405Rating
2/5
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Dr. Laurence Ready practices Pain Medicine in Tacoma, WA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Ready serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
University Of Saskatchewan College Of Medicine 1967
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anesthesia-based pain services improve the quality of postoperative pain management.
- Drug choices for intravenous and spinal analgesia.
- Intramuscular opioid injections: a step in the wrong direction.
- Acute pain: lessons learned from 25,000 patients.
- PCA is effective for older patients--but are there limits?
- The acute pain service.
- Epidural opioid analgesia does not obscure diagnosis of compartment syndrome resulting from prolonged lithotomy position.
- Patient-controlled analgesia--does it provide more than comfort?
- Epidural and intravenous fentanyl infusions are clinically equivalent after knee surgery.
- Spinal opioids in the management of acute and postoperative pain.
- Epidural morphine provides greater pain relief than patient-controlled intravenous morphine following cholecystectomy.
- Bacterial meningitis in parturients after epidural anesthesia.
- Acute pain services: an academic asset.
- Spinal needle determinants of rate of transdural fluid leak.
- Patient controlled anxiolysis with midazolam.
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