Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers: United States, 1999-2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60(43):1487-1492.PubMedGoogle Scholar 15. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Drug overdose deaths in the United States hit record numbers in 2014. http://...
The study presented inJAMAis one of several at Rush assessing alternatives to opioid pain relievers after surgical procedures. An additional study at Rush have shown that patients who undergo a minimally invasive procedure called transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion may benefit from an MMA approach to...
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Chronic use of opioid medications before and after bariatric surgery. JAMA. 2013;310(13):1369-1376.ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 12. Harden RN, Bruehl S, Stanos S, et al. Prospective examination of pain-related and psychological predictors of CRPS-like phenomena following ...
Doctors today are reducing their patients' need for strong opioid medications after surgery by pre-treating patients with other pain relievers before they even enter the operating room. While opioids relievepatients'painand suffering, between 8% and 12% of those who take these drugs develop anopioi...