Enhanced recovery strategies after penile implantation: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Optimizing pain management strategies in penile implantation has historically been a challenge to urologists assuming care of patients post-operatively. In addition to the complex pathophysiology of male genital pain, the responsibility of opioid stewardship in the face of the ongoing narcotics epidemic presents its own set of challenges to experienced implanters. Recent innovations in pre- and intra-operative analgesia have provided some improvement in patient-reported pain outcomes. When used together in protocols spanning each phase of operative care, multimodal analgesia (MMA) regimens provide superior patient pain control and successfully decrease opioid usage compared to traditional opioid-based pain control. This review will systematically present literature that discusses intervent

SUBMITTER: Ellis JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261412 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature