Multimodal pain regimen improved satisfaction after outpatient hand surgery vs. opioids
Compared with a traditional postoperative opioid regimen, a multimodal pain management regimen increased satisfaction for patients who underwent outpatient orthopedic hand or wrist surgery, according to published results. Asif M. Ilyas, MD, MBA, and colleagues from the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute at Thomas Jefferson University randomly assigned 112 consecutive patients who underwent