Do opioid-sparing strategies reduce the need for opioids and improve patient satisfaction in adult surgical patients?
Coordinated pain management approaches, including regional anesthesia, are recommended to reduce opioid requirements and improve satisfaction after surgery.
In appropriate cases, regional anesthetic interventions are extremely useful for postoperative analgesia, including peripheral nerve blocks and neuraxial analgesia and while newer postoperative analgesics have been postulated, the literature on such is presently controversial. Coordinated approaches to pain management are recommended to reduce the need for opioids and to improve patient satisfaction post-surgery.
Gabriel et al. (Wed,) studied this question.