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  • Anesthesiology
  • Pain Management
  • Public Health

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  • The United States faces an opioid epidemic with severe morbidity and mortality.
  • Perioperative opioid use presents challenges due to surgical trauma and pain.
  • Postoperative pain, though often limited, requires effective management strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review literature on nonopioid approaches for managing postoperative pain.
  • To explore methods for reducing perioperative opioid consumption.
  • To highlight the role of regional anesthesia and multimodal analgesia.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of adjunct medications.
  • Analysis of regional anesthesia and analgesic techniques.
  • Examination of regional block additives for pain control.

Main Results:

  • Nonopioid modalities can provide adequate pain control.
  • Regional anesthesia and multimodal analgesia decrease the need for opioids.
  • Adjunct medications and block additives enhance pain management.

Conclusions:

  • Effective pain management can be achieved with reduced opioid use.
  • Nonopioid strategies are vital in combating the opioid epidemic.
  • Multimodal approaches offer a promising solution for postoperative pain control.