Limiting opioids during surgery may lead to more postoperative pain and opioid use for patients JAMASurgery
conducted by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital indicates that overly restricting use of opioids during surgery may be doing more harm than good.
For the study, researchers analyzed information on 61,249 adults who had surgery at MGH from 2016–2020.
"We need to develop new technologies to help anesthesiologists titrate and optimize opioid administration in thein a personalized way," he says."But this data gives us evidence that such efforts could have significant long-term benefits. Laura A. Santa Cruz Mercado and Ran Liu were co–first authors on this paper. Edward A. Bittner and Patrick L. Purdon were co–senior authors. Additional co-authors include Kishore M. Bharadwaj, Jasmine J. Johnson, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Proloy Das, Gustavo Balanza, Hao Deng, Akriti Pandit, Tom A.D. Stone, Teresa Macdonald, Caroline Horgan, Si Long , and Timothy T. Houle.Laura A.
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