Simone Redaelli, Aiman Suleiman, Dario von Wedel, Sarah Ashrafian, Ricardo Munoz-Acuna, Guanqing Chen, Mitra Khany, Catriona Stewart, Nikolai Ratajczak, John Hertig, Sarah Nabel, Maximilian S Schaefer, Satya Krishna Ramachandran
INTRODUCTION: Perioperative opioid use has been associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Additionally, opioid disposal carries significant costs, due to the waste of pharmaceutical products and the time needed by skilled labor to report the waste. In this study, we aimed to estimate costs and predict factors of opioid-associated intraoperative product waste, as well as to evaluate whether higher intraoperative opioid doses are associated with increased risk of adverse postoperative outcomes...
January 28, 2024: Pain and Therapy