Postoperative Pain Management

Management of postoperative pain is a major health care challenge that affects 40 – 50 million Americans who undergo a surgical procedure each year. Studies have shown that successful management of postoperative pain can result in shorter recovery times and a faster return to a normal life for patients. Currently, treatment for postoperative pain is dominated by opioid therapeutics, which being prone to addiction and abuse, have precipitated a national health care crisis, with prescription opioids involved in 24% of all opioid-related deaths in 2020.

The goal of Ferdia’s postoperative pain programs is to develop long-acting peptide therapeutics suitable for infusion at the time of surgery and/or once-weekly subcutaneous injection post-surgery as a safe and effective non-addictive alternative for treating postoperative pain.