Over the past decade there has been an increasing reliance on strong opioids to treat acute
and chronic pain, which has been associated with a rising epidemic of prescription opioid …

Balanced general anesthesia, the most common management strategy used in anesthesia
care, entails the administration of different drugs together to create the anesthetic state …

Background Acute postoperative pain is common. Nearly 20 per cent of patients experience
severe pain in the first 24 h after surgery, a figure that has remained largely unchanged in …

Importance Opioids administered to treat postsurgical pain are a major contributor to the
opioid crisis, leading to chronic use in a considerable proportion of patients. Initiatives …

In this narrative review article, the authors discuss the anatomy, nomenclature, history,
approaches (posterior vs. lateral vs. subcostal), techniques, pharmacology, indications, and …

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Abstract Purpose of Review Postoperative pain remains one of the most common
challenges following inpatient and outpatient surgeries. With our advances in modern …

Study objective Opioid-free anaesthesia may enhance postoperative recovery by reducing
opioid-related side effects such as nausea, hyperalgesia or tolerance. The objective was to …

Abstract The Society for Vascular Surgery and the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society
formally collaborated and elected an international, multidisciplinary panel of experts to …

Reports of strategies to prevent and treat the opioid epidemic are growing. Significant
attention has been paid to the benefits of opioid addiction research, clinical prescribing, and …