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JANUARY 18, 2019

Pain Protocol Facilitates Outpatient Mastectomy

Fewer Opioids, Higher Patient Satisfaction

Boston—Mastectomy patients treated with a multimodal pain control regimen that included liposomal bupivacaine experienced low levels of postoperative pain, allowing them to be discharged home the same day and with a reduced need for opioids during recovery, according to a presentation at the 2018 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

“This is not only encouraging as something preventative in a fight back against the opioid epidemic itself, but it is encouraging that