Making the case for a procedure-specific definition of chronic postoperative opioid use

Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2020 Mar 25:rapm-2020-101327. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101327. Online ahead of print.

Mallika Tamboli^{1

2}, Edward R Mariano^{3

2}, Kariem El-Boghdadly⁴, Nabil M Elkassabany⁵, Alex Kou^{1

2}, Paul Chung⁶, Seshadri C Mudumbai^{1

2}

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
² Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA emariano@stanford.edu.
⁴ Anaesthesia, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁶ Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute pain; opioids, adverse effects; postoperative pain.