Evidenced-Based Opioid Prescribing Recommendations Following Hand and Upper-Extremity Surgery

Adams, Alexander J.; Ilyas, Asif M.

doi:10.1016/j.jhsg.2022.06.006

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“…In the midst of an unrelenting opioid epidemic, methods for diminishing the need for opioids after upper-extremity surgical procedures have been explored. In general, most patients use fewer than one-half of the opioids prescribed after the surgical procedure, so better tailoring of amounts prescribed is an easy step [48][49][50] . Intravenous glucocorticoids have been shown to decrease pain in multimodal regimens 51 .…”

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confidence: 99%