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Dr. W. Idlcat has been at Northwestern for 10 years, and their research occasionally calls for surgical procedures. During the laboratories' recent de novo, the reviewers required the laboratory to update their pain management from a single analgesic to multimodal. Dr. Idlcat agreed to make the update and the de novo was approved. Dr. Idlcat’s staff continued performing surgeries but did not provide multimodal analgesics for recovery, following their previously approved analgesic regimen. Is this noncompliance?
A. Yes
B. No
Dr. W. Idlcat has been at Northwestern for 10 years, and their research occasionally calls for surgical procedures. During the laboratories' recent de novo, the reviewers required the laboratory to update their pain management from a single analgesic to multimodal. Dr. Idlcat agreed to make the update and the de novo was approved. Dr. Idlcat’s staff continued performing surgeries but did not provide multimodal analgesics for recovery, following their previously approved analgesic regimen. Is this noncompliance?
A. Yes
B. No
Learner Feedback: The correct answer is A, yes. Even though the analgesic regimen used was previously approved, the updated procedure must be followed. Multimodal is the current standard of care and unless a laboratory can justify a modification to the analgesic recommendations, protocols will be asked to update to use multimodal when they are up for review. The laboratory will need to develop a communication strategy to ensure that laboratory members conducting procedures are aware of changes to their protocol. It is strongly recommended to review the currently approved protocol prior to initiating procedures and to have the PI or PI proxy update the lab when changes are made. B. No is incorrect because once a procedure is no longer active on a protocol, it is no longer able to be used. It is strongly recommended to remove previous versions of a procedure from the PI Procedure Library in eIACUC. If a laboratory requires assistance with managing their PI Library, please reach out to the IACUC Office.