Sentences with phrase «postoperative opioid use»

A much higher rate of prolonged postoperative opioid use is identified in bariatric surgical patients compared with general surgical patients.

There are limited data on the risk of previously opioid - naive individuals developing persistent postoperative opioid use.

Conversely, the large volume of surgeries performed annually means that the population burden of long - term postoperative opioid use remains significant.»

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Exposure to opioids is largely unavoidable after major surgery because they are routinely used to treat postoperative pain.

Their postoperative use has expanded with the recent development of intravenous formulations and because NSAIDs avoid the adverse effects of opioid pain relievers such as respiratory depression, impaired motility of the gastrointestinal tract and others, according to background in the study.

Opioid drugs used to relieve pain in postoperative and chronic cancer patients may stimulate the growth and spread of tumors, according to two studies and a commentary in the 2012 annual Journal Symposium issue of Anesthesiology, the academic journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

For procedures that can be expected to cause severe pain, a constant rate infusion with an opioid can be used for intraoperative pain control and continued for postoperative pain control.