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Combating the Opioid Epidemic: Experience with a Single Prescription for Total Joint Arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: Despite advances in perioperative total joint arthroplasty (TJA) pain protocols, opiates continue to play a major role in postoperative pain control. This brief communication reports our experience with a restrictive opioid protocol allowing patients only a single prescription of low-dos...

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Autores principales: Sun, Daniel, Cusano, Antonio, Harrington, Melvin A., Halawi, Mohamad J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32875017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2020.07.013