Perioperative Management of Buprenorphine at an Urban Academic Medical Center

• Published in: The Journal of surgical research Vol. 302; pp. 160 - 165
• Main Authors: Brighton, Tessa, Bagchi, Avilash, Fernandez, Juliet, Ashton, Suzanne, Angaramo, Gustavo, Ha, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Acute pain; Analgesia; Buprenorphine; Opioid use disorder; Perioperative; Analgesia; Perioperative; Acute pain; Buprenorphine; Opioid use disorder

Buprenorphine is a partial mu opioid receptor agonist with high affinity to its receptor, which raises concerns of blocking or displacing full opioid agonists when used during the perioperative period of surgical patients. However, buprenorphine itself has high analgesic potency and discontinuing bu...