Association Between Perioperative Celecoxib, Acetaminophen, and Opioid Consumption After Palate Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The take-home point: this paper gives an adult, sleep-apnea-specific signal that scheduled celecoxib goes with modestly less opioid use on the first day, and it sharpens how patients are counseled. Here is why it fits. Dr. Nord performs barbed reposition pharyngoplasty, and airway-surgery patients like these are kept for twenty-three-hour observation. The first-day window in this paper lines up closely with that observation stay. The decision it affects is whether scheduled celecoxib, before and after surgery, belongs in the multimodal plan for barbed reposition pharyngoplasty. What the paper…
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