Background Opioid‐based treatment is used to manage stress responses during surgery
and postoperative pain. However, opioids have both acute and long‐term side effects …

Importance Uncontrolled and indiscriminate prescribing of opioids has led to an opioid crisis
that started in North America and spread throughout high-income countries. The aim of this …

Background It is speculated that opioid-free anesthesia may provide adequate pain control
while reducing postoperative opioid consumption. However, there is currently no evidence …

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 …

While US opioid prescribing has decreased 38% in the past decade, opioid deaths have
increased 300%. This opioid paradox is poorly recognized. Current approaches to opioid …

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 …

Perioperative Opioids, the Opioid Crisis, and the Anesthesiologist | Anesthesiology |
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The vast majority of injured patients suffer from pain. Systematic assessment of pain on
admission to the emergency department (ED) is a cornerstone of translating the best …

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periodic and cyclical. Ideally, medical change is driven not by fashion but instead by …

Background Reducing intra-operative opioid consumption benefits patients by decreasing
postoperative opioid-related adverse events. We assessed whether opioid-free anesthesia …