Sentences with phrase «preoperative opioid use»

Recommendations are for patients with no preoperative opioid use.

«The bottom line is that preoperative opioid use is an important and potentially modifiable risk factor prior to surgery, and should be on surgeons» radar as well as the minds of primary care providers,» says Waljee.

These findings suggest that perhaps preoperative opioid use warrants the same awareness,» says Jennifer Waljee, M.D., M.S., lead author of the study and a plastic surgeon at Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center.

Not exact matches

The new findings, and past research on the association between opioids and outcomes for other types of surgery, are enough to prompt the researchers to suggest that pre-operation opioid use should be considered a preoperative risk factor.