Battling the Opioid Epidemic with Prospective Pain Threshold Measurement

Responsible analgesic prescribing is paramount in the opioid epidemic era yet no standardized protocol exists. We aim to: (1) quantify and correlate outpatient opioid need after total knee and hip arthroplasty (TKA/THA) with preoperative objective pain pressure thresholds (PPT) and subjective pain measures (2) report incidence of non-surgical opioid prescriptions six weeks postoperatively.

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - February 21, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Brian T. Nickel, Mitchell R. Klement, William A. Byrd, David E. Attarian, Thorsten M. Seyler, Samuel S. Wellman Source Type: research