A multimodal opioid-sparing pain management protocol may significantly reduce patients’ opioid consumption after arthroscopic shoulder or knee surgery compared with standard opioid prescribing, according to published results.
“Our results show that the multimodal opioid reduction strategy used in the study was effective in reducing the amount of opioids prescribed and used by about tenfold each among patients undergoing minimally invasive (arthroscopic) knee and shoulder surgery, without a difference in pain levels or patient satisfaction,” Olufemi R. Ayeni, MD, PhD, told