Pain Management

Nearly 62% of adults retained unused opioids 3 months after ED discharge for acute pain, with authors noting this can contribute to misuse.

A retrospective study of 399,500 opioid-naive adults linked initial opioid and gabapentinoid use to higher subsequent OUD or overdose diagnosis risk.

Key Highlights Six-month satisfaction data were available for 166 adults undergoing knee surgery.

Interviews with 15 older surgical patients identified psychological and social influences on acute pain, informing a biopsychosocial model.

Interviews explore how older surgical patients perceive their role in postoperative pain management and their preferred level of engagement.

A retrospective study evaluated whether preoperative distress predicts pain clinic referrals after mastectomy with immediate reconstruction.

A randomized controlled trial found lower pain, preoperative anxiety, and rescue analgesic use with biofeedback-guided breathing in laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients.

Researchers examined whether pain during the first postoperative week predicts quality-of-life recovery 90 days after lumbar fusion.

An institutional analysis examines first-year outpatient suzetrigine prescribing across orthopedic surgical and pain services.

A comparative deep learning study found highly correlated facial attention maps, although the human-trained model showed better pain/non-pain separation.