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Multimodal Analgesia In Orthopaedic Surgery And Presentation Of A Comprehensive Postoperative Pain Protocol: A Review, Christopher L. Shultz, Benjamin D. Packard, Kathryn C. Helmig, Christopher Kurnik, Benjamin S. Albertson, Nathan E. Huff, Gehron P. Treme
Multimodal Analgesia In Orthopaedic Surgery And Presentation Of A Comprehensive Postoperative Pain Protocol: A Review, Christopher L. Shultz, Benjamin D. Packard, Kathryn C. Helmig, Christopher Kurnik, Benjamin S. Albertson, Nathan E. Huff, Gehron P. Treme
UNM Orthopaedic Research Journal
Rising opioid use in the United States has now been termed an epidemic. Opioid use is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality, and cost to the healthcare system. Orthopaedic surgeons play a key role in the opioid epidemic by prescribing postoperative narcotics. Although our understanding of the quantity of narcotics to prescribe postoperatively for analgesia is progressing, there is still a paucity of data focused on routine postoperative pain protocols. The purpose of this article is to review the current options for both opioid and non-opioid analgesia and put forth a multisubspecialty orthopaedic protocol of postoperative pain. On the basis of …