Originally published by our sister publication, Anesthesiology News
Ruth Landau, MD
Orlando, Fla.—The implementation of a two-step intervention to adopt opioid-sparing protocols resulted in a profound cultural change and radically decreased the number of women taking oxycodone after cesarean delivery, as well as their cumulative oxycodone dose.
“It was obvious that the way the prescription of pain medicine was interpreted and deployed did not allow for the administration of nonopioids