NIH R01 · 2024
Improving Perioperative Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
In the United States, nearly 2 million adults live with opioid use disorder. Compared with opioid naïve patients, individuals with opioid use disorder experience greater challenges in managing acute pain and a greater risk for opioid-related harms. For example, individuals with opioid use disorder may have tolerance to commonly used analgesics, and opioid use disorder has been shown to increase the risk of inadequate pain control after surgery. Surgical care is one of the most common reasons for opioid prescribing for acute pain, but there is little evidence to guide postoperative pain management and reduce opioid-related harms for individuals with opioid use disorder. Specifically,…
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