Prolonged Opioid Use and Pain Outcome And Associated Factors after Surgery Under General Anesthesia: A Prospective Cohort Association Multicenter Study.

Kai KuckBhiken I NaikKaren B DominoKaren L PosnerLeif SaagerAmi R StuartKen B JohnsonSalome B AlpertMarcel E DurieuxAnik K SinhaChad M BrummettMichael F AzizKenneth C Cummings IiiJohn G GaudetAndrea KurzMienke RijsdijkJonathan P WandererNathan L Pace

Published in: Anesthesiology (2023)

Preoperative opioid use was the strongest predictor of opioid use three months post surgery. None of the other variables showed clinically significant association with opioid use at three months after surgery.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
chronic pain
pain management
coronary artery bypass
neuropathic pain
coronary artery disease
atrial fibrillation
surgical site infection