Opioid Use After Inguinal and Ventral Hernia Repair.

CONCLUSION: Patients require little to no opioid after primary ventral or inguinal hernia repair and opioid-free surgery is feasible. Incisional hernia is more heterogenous, but the majority of patients still required less opioid than previously thought. PMID: 32779472 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The American Surgeon - August 10, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Millard JL, Moraney R, Childs JC, Ewing JA, Carbonell AM, Cobb WS, Warren JA Tags: Am Surg Source Type: research