How low can you go: Achieving postoperative outpatient pain control without opioids
CONCLUSION
This study demonstrated that opioids can be eliminated in at least half of the patients and that five pills of 5 mg of oxycodone (37.5 OME) is sufficient for outpatient pain control when a 3-day course of ibuprofen and acetaminophen is prescribed.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Therapeutic study, level V.
Source: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: 2019 EAST PODIUM PAPER Source Type: research
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