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The demographics of persistent opioid consumption following limb amputation.

Talora SteenPhilipp B LirkMartin Ingi Sigurdsson
Published in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2019)
Opioid naïve patients undergoing major amputation had a 20% chance of having a persistent opioid requirement following surgery. This could represent new-onset phantom limb pain or other chronic pain. Our findings should encourage perioperative multimodal efforts to reduce the burden of chronic pain after limb amputations.
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