Reducing Postoperative Opioid Use in Orthopaedics: A Review of Multimodal Analgesia Strategies, Patient Outcomes, and Implementation into Practice
The opioid crisis has underscored the urgent need for safer, more effective postoperative pain management strategies in orthopaedic surgery. Traditionally, opioids have played a central role in post-surgical analgesia. Still, emerging evidence supports the use of multimodal analgesia (MMA) protocols to reduce and possi...