Source: Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation
Studies have shown that there is an approximately 8.2% risk of chronic addiction after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using conventional methods to recover from surgery in patients who are opioid-naive (1). A previous study by the authors found that a novel multimodal protocol significantly reduced the use of postoperative TKA opioids in the first 90 days post-op (2). The present study sought to ascertain whether the protocol had persistent effects which led to a lower risk of chronic addiction than that which is currently published.