Lauriane Guichard, MD
A recent study has identified a series of patient and surgical factors that may lead to increased opioid use in the ICU after surgery.
These factors include:
- preoperative opioid use,
- major surgery,
- younger age, and
- anesthesia duration.
“During my residency at the University of Michigan, I noticed we use opioids liberally in the ICU,” said Lauriane Guichard, MD, a critical care and cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham,