Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have found that robot-assisted surgeries and new patient-care protocols are enabling lung cancer surgery patients to go home earlier, with less pain and almost always without a need for potentially addictive opioids.
They found they could drastically reduce patients' postoperative need for potent and potentially addictive opioid drugs like oxycodone and hydromorphone by using intercostal nerve blocks—injections of medication under the ribs—that combine a long-acting local anesthetic with a fast-acting, short-duration one.
"On the day of discharge, patients reported pain levels of zero to 2 or 3 on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale, where 10 denotes the most severeThe single-institution, retrospective study of patient records included 466 patients who underwent surgery performed by thoracic surgeons in the DeWitt Daughtry Department of Surgery at the University of Miami. Of the 466, 211 patients underwent complex, major operations, and 255 had less complicated procedures performed.
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