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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Chronic opioid use"”.
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Reducing Opioid Use Following Posterior Spinal Fusion Procedures: A Pilot Project
<p>Importance: Opioid misuse and mortality remain a prevalent problem in the United States and there is a high rate of chronic opioid-use after spinal fusions. Current guidelines recommend the optimization of non-opioid analgesics as a primary pain control strategy with opioids acting as a …
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Opioid Reduction Initiative: A Retrospective Review of Prescriptions Among Various Providers, Observation, and Future Recommendations
… deaths in 2017 were attributed to opioids (Slovis et al., 2020). Post-surgical opioids account for 5% of the 191 million opioid prescriptions, with 80% of the opioids prescribed going unused (Stulberg et al., 2019).Aim: This project utilized a retrospective review of kidney …
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Neuropsychological function as a result of chronic exposure to methadone and other opioids
It is increasingly recognised that chronic exposure to opioids has been associated with neuropsychological impairment during both active use and following a period of abstinence. The overall objective of this thesis was to review the relevant prior literature in a systematic manner and subsequently …
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Optimizing Opioid Prescription for Outpatient Surgery
INTRODUCTION: Opioid overprescribing by surgeons has contributed to the current opioid epidemic. This has occurred both from the transition of patients to chronic opioid use after initial use for acute pain only and from diversion of unused opioids from prescriptions intended for acute surgical …