P Bradley Segebarth, Michael Schallmo, Susan Odum, Kayla Hietpas, Caleb Michalek, T Matthew Chapman, Daniel Leas, R Alden Milam, Nady Hamid
STUDY DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial (RCT). OBJECTIVE: Compare the efficacy of a multimodal, opioid-free (OF) pain management pathway with a traditional opioid-containing (OC) pathway in patients undergoing anterior cervical procedures. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Previous studies have compared opioid-based pain regimens to opioid-sparing regimens following cervical spine surgery, but have been limited by high rates of crossover, retrospective designs, reliance on indwelling pain catheters, opioid utilization for early postoperative analgesia, and/or a lack of patient-reported outcome measures...
March 28, 2024: Clinical Spine Surgery