Background Acute postoperative pain is common. Nearly 20 per cent of patients experience
severe pain in the first 24 h after surgery, a figure that has remained largely unchanged in …

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

OBJECTIVE Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and multimodal analgesia are
established care models that minimize perioperative opioid consumption and promote …

Multimodal analgesia is defined as the use of more than one pharmacological class of
analgesic medication targeting different receptors along the pain pathway with the goal of …

Obese patients are at higher risk of perioperative complications, mainly associated with
those related to the respiratory function. An appropriate preoperative evaluation …

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 …

The use of opioids in the perioperative period is associated with respiratory depression,
impaired gastrointestinal function, post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), pruritus …

Background: A significant amount of evidence suggests that Opioid-Free Anaesthesia (OFA)
may provide better outcomes for patients undergoing surgery, sparing patients who are …

The epidemic of opioid crisis started getting recognised as a public health emergency in
view of increasing opioid-related deaths occurring due to undetected respiratory depression …

Study objectives The objective of this study was to determine whether postoperative
morphine requirement in obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery was …