Depression and female gender associated with higher postoperative pain scores after sinonasal surgery

CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: The study identified risk factors for a higher PPS and the need for opioids. The results indicated that reducing postoperative opioids might be possible in patients without these risk factors and might help guide individualized postoperative therapy.PMID:34939889 | DOI:10.1080/00016489.2021.2012254

Source: Acta Oto-Laryngologica - December 23, 2021 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Katharina Schinz Lukas Steigerwald Konstantinos Mantsopoulos Antoniu-Oreste Gostian Maximilian Traxdorf Matti Sievert Robin Rupp Heinrich Iro Sarina Katrin Mueller Source Type: research