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. 2020 Nov 15;6(6):1168-1169.
doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2019.08.014. Epub 2019 Sep 26.

The Shrinking Grey Zone of Postoperative Narcotics in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis: The No-opioid Urologist

Kelly R Pekala  1 , Bruce L Jacobs  2 , Benjamin J Davies  2
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The Shrinking Grey Zone of Postoperative Narcotics in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis: The No-opioid Urologist

Kelly R Pekala et al. Eur Urol Focus. .

Abstract

In urology, whether a surgeon needs to prescribe narcotics after minimally invasive surgery used to be a grey zone. We no longer believe that it is necessary to give opioids to opioid-naïve patients undergoing minimally invasive urologic surgery, with few exceptions.

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