Dr Soffin and colleagues raised several points regarding the use of a multimodal analgesia
(MMA) protocol for patients undergoing lumbar fusion in an ambulatory surgical center …

We read with great interest the work by Dr Parrish and colleagues describing their package
of multimodal analgesia (MMA) for lumbar surgery in the ambulatory setting. 1 We applaud …

Maheshwari et al. 1 and congratulate the authors for a prominently featured article and
infographic on the cover of Anesthesiology. We were interested to see that the results of the …

Changes in the perioperative management of surgical patients occur frequently; we have
observed major surgical procedures on patients admitted the day of surgery, increased …

Recently, we read with great interest the article titled,“Preemptive analgesia with a single
low dose of intrathecal morphine in multilevel posterior lumbar interbody fusion surgery: a …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Postoperative pain control following posterior spinal fusion
surgery remains a struggle for providing physicians. Poorly controlled pain can result in …

The authors present a very timely and interesting paper on opioids and spine surgery. 1 The
authors report that with guidelines implemented in the spine clinic, patients are able to …

Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery''by Wright et al1 with great diligence, and at the outset
we congratulate all the authors for their commendable effort on a topic, which is commonly …

This manuscript describes the effect of procedure-specific opioid prescription protocol after
elective cervical and lumbar spine surgery. 1 Per the standardized protocol, patients in the …

Arecent study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine by Winkelman et
al.(Winkelman RD, Kavanagh MD, Tanenbaum JE, et al. The change in postoperative opioid …