Patients Maintained on Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Should Continue Buprenorphine Through the Perioperative Period

Pain Med. 2019 Mar 1;20(3):425-428. doi: 10.1093/pm/pny019.

Authors

Anna Lembke^{1

2}, Einar Ottestad², Cliff Schmiesing²

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
² Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use
Buprenorphine / therapeutic use*
Buprenorphine, Naloxone Drug Combination / therapeutic use
Humans
Opiate Substitution Treatment / methods*
Opioid-Related Disorders / drug therapy*
Pain Management / methods*
Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
Perioperative Period

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Buprenorphine, Naloxone Drug Combination
Buprenorphine