TY - JOUR
T1 - Opioid Use After Colorectal Resection
T2 - Identifying Preoperative Risk Factors for Postoperative Use
AU - Levy, Brittany E.
AU - Castle, Jennifer T.
AU - Ebbitt, Laura M.
AU - Kennon, Caleb
AU - McAtee, Erin
AU - Davenport, Daniel L.
AU - Evers, B. Mark
AU - Bhakta, Avinash
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Introduction: Appropriate prescribing practices are imperative to ensure adequate pain control, without excess opioid dispensing across colorectal patients. Methods: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Kentucky All Scheduled Prescription Electronic Reporting, and patient charts were queried to complete a retrospective study of elective colorectal resections, performed by a fellowship-trained colorectal surgeon, from January 2013 to December 2020. Opioid use at 14 d and 30 d posthospital discharge converted into morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) were analyzed and compared across preadmission and inpatient factors. Results: One thousand four hundred twenty seven colorectal surgeries including 56.1% (N = 800) partial colectomy, 24.1% (N = 344) low anterior resection, 8.3% (N = 119) abdominoperineal resection, 8.4% (N = 121) sub/total colectomy, and 3.0% (N = 43) total proctocolectomy. Abdominoperineal resection and sub/total colectomy patients had higher 30-day postdischarge MMEs (P < 0.001, P = 0.041). An operative approach did not affect postdischarge MMEs (P = 0.440). Trans abdominal plane blocks do not predict postdischarge MMEs (0.616). Epidural usage provides a 15% increase in postdischarge MMEs (P = 0.020). Age (P < 0.001), smoking (P < 0.001), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (P = 0.006, < 0.001), dyspnea (P = 0.001, < 0.001), albumin < 3.5 (P = 0.085, 0.010), disseminated cancer (P = 0.018, 0.001), and preadmission MMEs (P < 0.001) predict elevated 14-day and 30-day postdischarge MMEs. Conclusions: We conclude that perioperative analgesic procedures, as enhanced recovery pathway suggests, are neither predictive nor protective of postoperative discharge MMEs in colorectal surgery. Provider should account for preoperative risk factors when prescribing discharge opioid medications. Furthermore, providers should identify appropriate adjunct procedures to improve discharge opioid prescription stewardship.
AB - Introduction: Appropriate prescribing practices are imperative to ensure adequate pain control, without excess opioid dispensing across colorectal patients. Methods: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Kentucky All Scheduled Prescription Electronic Reporting, and patient charts were queried to complete a retrospective study of elective colorectal resections, performed by a fellowship-trained colorectal surgeon, from January 2013 to December 2020. Opioid use at 14 d and 30 d posthospital discharge converted into morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) were analyzed and compared across preadmission and inpatient factors. Results: One thousand four hundred twenty seven colorectal surgeries including 56.1% (N = 800) partial colectomy, 24.1% (N = 344) low anterior resection, 8.3% (N = 119) abdominoperineal resection, 8.4% (N = 121) sub/total colectomy, and 3.0% (N = 43) total proctocolectomy. Abdominoperineal resection and sub/total colectomy patients had higher 30-day postdischarge MMEs (P < 0.001, P = 0.041). An operative approach did not affect postdischarge MMEs (P = 0.440). Trans abdominal plane blocks do not predict postdischarge MMEs (0.616). Epidural usage provides a 15% increase in postdischarge MMEs (P = 0.020). Age (P < 0.001), smoking (P < 0.001), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (P = 0.006, < 0.001), dyspnea (P = 0.001, < 0.001), albumin < 3.5 (P = 0.085, 0.010), disseminated cancer (P = 0.018, 0.001), and preadmission MMEs (P < 0.001) predict elevated 14-day and 30-day postdischarge MMEs. Conclusions: We conclude that perioperative analgesic procedures, as enhanced recovery pathway suggests, are neither predictive nor protective of postoperative discharge MMEs in colorectal surgery. Provider should account for preoperative risk factors when prescribing discharge opioid medications. Furthermore, providers should identify appropriate adjunct procedures to improve discharge opioid prescription stewardship.
KW - Colorectal surgery
KW - Opioid prescriptions
KW - Postoperative pain control
KW - Surgical recovery
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jss.2022.10.051
DO - 10.1016/j.jss.2022.10.051
M3 - Article
C2 - 36423479
AN - SCOPUS:85142313567
SN - 0022-4804
VL - 283
SP - 296
EP - 304
JO - Journal of Surgical Research
JF - Journal of Surgical Research
ER -
