Pre-emptive pain regimen decreased opioid usage in patients undergoing robotic prostatectomy

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:32 in Health & Medicine

Reporting in the journal Urology, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that a pre-emptive multimodal pain regimen that included pregabalin (Lyrica) decreased the use of opioid analgesics in patients undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

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