Optimal postoperative pain management: redefining the role for opioids

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1105AZ, Netherlands. Electronic address: m.w.hollmann@amc.uva.nl.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Markus W Hollmann et al. Lancet. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 13;393(10180):1483-1485.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30854-2.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1105AZ, Netherlands. Electronic address: m.w.hollmann@amc.uva.nl.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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