Feasibility of Implementing Opioid Stewardship Recommendations for Sinonasal Surgery.

CONCLUSION: Opioid stewardship recommendations can be instituted for sinonasal surgery, including multimodal perioperative pain management and substitution of tramadol for breakthrough pain, as a method to decrease the volume of opioids prescribed, without increasing patient phone calls or affecting the likelihood of physician recommendation Press Ganey scores. PMID: 33138720 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Pain Physician - November 3, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Jordan JW, Spankovich C, Stringer SP Tags: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Source Type: research