Surgery and opioids: some cracks in an enduring romance

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¹ Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK. Electronic address: dev.srivastava@nhs.scot.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Newcastle Pain Management Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Electronic address: paul.wilkinson@nuth.nhs.uk.

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Devjit Srivastava et al. Br J Anaesth. 2021 Jun.

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. 2021 Jun;126(6):1088-1092.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.02.003. Epub 2021 Mar 9.

¹ Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK. Electronic address: dev.srivastava@nhs.scot.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Newcastle Pain Management Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Electronic address: paul.wilkinson@nuth.nhs.uk.

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Keywords: analgesia; opioid crisis; opioid stewardship; pain; perioperative; postoperative pain.

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Surgery and opioids: evidence-based expert consensus guidelines on the perioperative use of opioids in the United Kingdom.
Srivastava D, Hill S, Carty S, Rockett M, Bastable R, Knaggs R, Lambert D, Levy N, Hughes J, Wilkinson P. Srivastava D, et al. Br J Anaesth. 2021 Jun;126(6):1208-1216. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.02.030. Epub 2021 Apr 14. Br J Anaesth. 2021. PMID: 33865553 Review.