Analgesia

Multiple diverse patient groups were less likely to have pain scores recorded or receive opioid or ketamine analgesia for pain compared with white patients, researchers found.

Published results showed pediatric patients who had closed reduction and percutaneous pinning of a supracondylar humeral fracture and a nonopioid analgesia protocol showed similar pain scores compared with those who had opioid analgesia.

Published results showed use of local infiltration analgesia as an adjuvant therapy to spinal anesthesia may decrease pain and the need for opioid consumption after total hip arthroplasty.

Despite higher pain scores at 8 hours postoperatively and increased opioid use, local infiltration analgesia was less costly and yielded similar pain scores at 24 hours after shoulder arthroplasty compared with an interscalene block.

A cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open revealed significant racial and ethnic disparities in the management of postdural puncture headache using epidural blood patches, which may be associated with long-term adverse effects.

Using neuraxial analgesia in women undergoing their first vaginal delivery was associated with a reduced risk for severe maternal morbidity, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study in JAMA Network Open.

Heron Therapeutics Inc. announced it received FDA approval for Zynrelef to provide postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours after bunionectomy, open inguinal herniorrhaphy and total knee arthroplasty.