Intraoperative pharmacologic opioid minimisation strategies and patient-centred outcomes after surgery: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postoperative patient-centred outcome measures are essential to capture the patient's experience after surgery. Although a large number of pharmacologic opioid minimisation strategies (i.e. opioid alternatives) are used for patients undergoing surgery, it remains unclear which strategies are most promising in terms of patient-centred outcome improvements. This scoping review had two main objectives: (1) to map and describe evidence from clinical trials assessing the patient-centred effectiveness of pharmacologic intraoperative opioid minimisation strategies in adult surgical patients, and (2) to identify promising pharmacologic opioid minimisation strategies.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL, Web of Science, and CINAHL databases from inception to Febru

SUBMITTER: Verret M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10925893 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature