Wide-awake and office-based hand surgeries are increasingly common. The association of these techniques with postoperative pain and pain control has garnered recent attention. A prior study demonstrated that office-based trigger finger release (TFR) were associated with decreased perioperative opioid prescriptions compared to those performed in the operating room. The current study provides an in-depth analysis of the association between surgical setting and perioperative opioid prescriptions for wide-awake TFR.
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