Originally published by our sister publication General Surgery News
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Patients who undergo laparoscopic or robotic inguinal hernia repair require fewer opioids to manage their postoperative pain compared with open surgery, with a trend toward no opioid consumption after robotic repair and with increasing age, according to the results of a new study.
“A lot of initial research that compared open and minimally invasive surgery found less pain and less opioid use with