Open AccessDay-of-Surgery Gabapentinoids and Prolonged Opioid Use: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Medicare Patients Using Electronic Health Records
Author(s) -
Jessica C. Young,
Nabarun Dasgupta,
Brooke Chidgey,
Til Stürmer,
Virginia Pate,
Michael G. Hudgens,
Michele Jönsson Funk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000005656
Subject(s) - medicine , opioid , confidence interval , population , retrospective cohort study , cohort study , observational study , emergency medicine , anesthesia , surgery , receptor , environmental health
While preoperative gabapentinoids are commonly used in surgical multimodal analgesia protocols, little is known regarding the effects this therapy has on prolonged postsurgical opioid use. In this observational study, we used data from a large integrated health care system to estimate the association between preoperative day-of-surgery gabapentinoids and the risk of prolonged postsurgical opioid use.