Opioids have dominated the management of perioperative pain in recent decades with
higher doses than ever before used in some circumstances. Through the expanding use of …

The drug-induced, reversible coma of anaesthesia requires three clinical outcomes:
unconsciousness, immobility, and the control of autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses …

There are significant concerns regarding prescription and misuse of prescription opioids in
the perioperative period. The Faculty of Pain Medicine at the Royal College of Anaesthetists …

Opioids form an important component of general anesthesia and perioperative analgesia.
Discharge opioid prescriptions are identified as a contributor for persistent opioid use and …

Reports of strategies to prevent and treat the opioid epidemic are growing. Significant
attention has been paid to the benefits of opioid addiction research, clinical prescribing, and …

In the midst of an epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose-related morbidity and mortality,
the use of opioids remains the most common means of providing analgesia in the …

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Background Postoperative patient-centred outcome measures are essential to capture the
patient's experience after surgery. Although a large number of pharmacologic opioid …

Despite the thousands of years during which opioids have been used medicinally, the
appropriate indications and usage for opioids, across medicine, remain incompletely …

Enhanced recovery pathways have quickly become part of the standard of care for patients
undergoing elective surgery, especially in North America and Europe. One of the central …