Perioperative opioid prescribing concerns in anterior cervical surgery
Darcy T Fay, Nam V Huynh, Aaron J Buckland · 2026
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Darcy T Fay, Nam V Huynh, and Aaron J Buckland traced in 2026 how opioid use before neck surgery echoes through recovery. Their Melbourne series covered 61 patients of one surgeon having front-approach cervical fusion or disc replacement between 2020 and 2024. Pharmacy records split them into 28 opioid-sensitized patients and 33 opioid-naive ones.
Sensitized patients needed opioids far more often at six weeks and at six months after surgery. Even under a month of prior prescribing raised the odds of use in the early months. Longer prior exposure stretched the effect to a full year and raised total morphine-equivalent doses. Pain and disability scores, though, ended the same in both groups, so extra opioids bought no better reported outcome. The authors press prescribers to weigh duration of preoperative use as a warning flag.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Darcy T Fay, Nam V Huynh, Aaron J Buckland |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |