Pre-emptive analgesia at inguinal hernioplasty: a simple step towards lowering opioid use.

Autor:	Whewell, H., Elnaghi, M., Stephenson, B. M.
Předmět:	OPIOIDS ANALGESIA HERNIA surgery INGUINAL hernia LOCAL anesthesia ANIMAL rights
Zdroj:	Hernia; Feb2023, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p197-197, 1p
Abstrakt:	Dear Editors, Patient requirement for adequate post-operative analgesia is difficult to predict and thus our American colleagues at the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC) are to be congratulated on their "forensic" report with regard to use of opioid analgesia following inguinal hernia repair in approximately 2000 patients [[1]]. As in many series, a repair under local anaesthesia is the strongest predictor ( I P i < 0.001) of B I not i b requiring the use of opioids, closely followed by cases where local anaesthesia (LA) was added to a general anaesthetic (GA) ( I P i = 0.022). [Extracted from the article]
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