Would doctors pay attention to opioid-prescribing guidelines that are surgery-specific, and would smaller amounts be sufficient to control patients’ pain?
showing one possible side effect of surgery is long-term dependence on pain pills. Some medical centers and groups of physicians responded by establishing surgery-specific guidelines.
Overall, doctors prescribed eight fewer pills per patient — dropping from 26 to 18 — across nine common surgical procedures, including hernia repair, appendectomy and hysterectomy. The results come amid ongoing concern about the opioid crisis and a continued examination of the role prescription drugs played in its escalation.
“That can be a bigger concern for many of us,” Vu said. “It seems that in surgery, for whatever reason, we wrote prescriptions for a lot more opioids than people actually needed.” “These patients feel besieged … and say, ‘I need these pills to get out of bed in the morning,’” Vu said. “This project and study is not about chronic pain. It’s about preventing harm to healthy people coming in for surgery.”
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