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Differences in Need for Opioids After Sinonasal Surgery at Day of Surgery and in the Postoperative Period.

Lukas SteigerwaldKatharina SchinzMatti SievertKonstantinos MantsopoulosAntoniu-Oreste GostianHeinrich IroSarina Katrin Müller
Published in: Ear, nose, & throat journal (2021)
Our results indicate that the majority of patients need opioid analgesics almost exclusively on the day of surgery. There were no major complications in patients taking either opioid or non-opioids. Our results indicate that the postoperative pain regimen from POD1 should initially be started using non-opioid analgesics and be further escalated to opioid analgesics in individual cases.
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