Nayoung Kim

TL;DR: It is found that patients are being prescribed approximately 3 times greater opioid medications than needed following upper-extremity surgical procedures, and surgeons should consider customizing their opioid prescriptions on the basis of anatomic location and procedure type to prescribe the optimal amount of opioids while avoiding dissemination of excess opioids.

TL;DR: Opioid consumption following CTR is more influenced by age and gender, and less influenced by anesthesia type, insurance type, or the type of opioid prescribed.

TL;DR: The incidence of hardware removal in this series was 10%, and the vast majority of patients had Soong grade 1 prominence, which indicated that patients who had hardware removed had a greater plate prominence volar to the critical line.

TL;DR: Opioid consumption after DRF-ORIF was equivalent for general and regional anesthesia, and an inverse relationship between age and opioid use was found, and there was a trend toward more opioid consumption among self-pay and Medicaid patients.

TL;DR: Patients undergoing open CTR experienced similar levels of satisfaction and outcomes with either the WALANT or MAC techniques, and there was no statistically significant difference between either group relative to the tested outcome measures.