New Persistent Opioid Use After Postoperative Intensive Care in US Veterans

Kunal Karamchandani; Srinivas Pyati; William Bryan; Marc Pepin; Erik B Lehman; Vijay Krishnamoorthy; Karthik Raghunathan

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0899

New Persistent Opioid Use After Postoperative Intensive Care in US Veterans

JAMA Surg. 2019 Aug 1;154(8):778-780. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0899.

Authors

Kunal Karamchandani¹, Srinivas Pyati^{2

3}, William Bryan², Marc Pepin², Erik B Lehman⁴, Vijay Krishnamoorthy^{2

3}, Karthik Raghunathan^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
² The Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, Durham VA Healthcare System, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Critical Care And Perioperative Epidemiologic Research Unit, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

This study uses medical records of more than 800 000 US veterans treated in the intensive care unit after surgery to determine the rate at which these patients developed new persistent opioid use.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
Critical Care / methods*
Female
Humans
Intensive Care Units*
Male
Middle Aged
Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
Retrospective Studies
United States
Veterans / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid