Jack M Ayres, Johnathan Dallman, Jack A Nolte, Nicholas Higginbotham, Jordan Baker, Greg Horton, Jonathon Salava, John Sojka, Kimberly J Templeton, Radu Ioan Malancea, Archie Heddings
INTRODUCTION: Opioids play a crucial role in post-operative pain management in America, but not in some other countries. We sought to determine if a discrepancy in opioid use between the United States (U.S.) and Romania, a country that administers opioids in a conservative fashion, would show in subjective pain control differences. METHODS: Between May 23, 2019, and November 23, 2019, 244 Romanian patients and 184 American patients underwent total hip arthroplasty or the surgical treatment of the following fractures: bimalleolar ankle, distal radius, femoral neck, intertrochanteric, and tibial-fibular...
2023: Kansas Journal of Medicine