Opioid Use in Robotic-Arm Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Comparison to Conventional Manual Total Knee Arthroplasty.

CONCLUSION: Less opioids were prescribed at discharge and used during hospitalization in raTKA compared to mTKA though no differences in opioid use were seen at further time points. Preoperative opioid use remains a dominant factor in postoperative opioid utilization regardless of TKA surgical technique. PMID: 33217759 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33217759?dopt=Abstract

Source: Surgical Technology International - November 22, 2020 Category: Surgery Tags: Surg Technol Int Source Type: research