Patients Needing Medications For OUD Should Continue To Receive Them Prior To Surgery, Researchers Conclude

Medscape (10/16, Banks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Patients who need medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) should continue to receive them prior to surgery, rather than stopping those drugs, as has been the convention,” according to findings from “a new analysis of more than five million surgeries presented at Anesthesiology 2023.”

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