Multimodal Opioid Sparing Anesthesia for Women Undergoing Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Hysterectomy

The opioid overdose epidemic is a public health crisis. In 2017, 67% of overdose deaths involved opioids. A patient’s first exposure to opioids may occur during surgery. Opioids predisposes patients to untoward effects such as opioid misuse and abuse arising from the development of acute-tolerance and opioid-induced-hyperalgesia. Approximately 51 million individuals undergo surgery annually. Up to 40% of patients exposed to opioids develop some form of physical dependence and addiction. Anesthesia providers can mitigate the opioid crisis using Multimodal Opioid Sparing techniques that decrease or eliminate the use of opioids. Patients who received multimodal therapy were three times more likely to decline opioids without an increase in pain compared.