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Multimodal Pain Management To Reduce Opioid Use After Cholecystectomy, Danielle Tretbar
Multimodal Pain Management To Reduce Opioid Use After Cholecystectomy, Danielle Tretbar
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Papers
The purpose of this research and systematic literature review is to determine effective pain management options for patients undergoing a cholecystectomy procedure while decreasing the use of postoperative narcotics. In this review, the databases searched included PudMed, Clinical Key and Dynamed Plus. A variety of key terms were used when searching. Studies chosen from this search were peer reviewed and included randomized control trials, systematic reviews and met analyses. Excluded studies did not particularly research the drug classes of interest or they dealt solely with different surgical pain interventions during the procedure. The research presented shows the use of gabapentinoids, …